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What is the Panama Canal? / by Janet B. Pascal ; illustrated by Tim Foley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: What was ...? | What was--?Publication details: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014Description: 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780448478999
  • 0448478994
  • 9781480639959
  • 1480639958
  • 9780606356886
  • 0606356886
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Contents:
Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.
Summary: "Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 108)

Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.

"Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com.

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