Zachary Karabell

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Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez CanalPaperback, 11 May 2004

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
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Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Vintage
Date Published
11 May 2004
ISBN-10
037570812X
ISBN-13
9780375708121

Description

Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.

The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt's prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied heavily on forced labor and technical and diplomatic obstacles constantly threatened completion. The inauguration in 1869 captured the imagination of the world. The Suez Canal was heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations, but its legacy is mixed. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.

Product Details

Author:
Zachary Karabell
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
11 May 2004
Dimensions:
20.22 x 13.21 x 2.24 cm
ISBN-10:
037570812X
ISBN-13:
9780375708121
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Weight:
312.98 gm

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