What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0448478994
ISBN 13
9780448478999
Category
LEVEL R NON FICTION
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
112
Description
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 world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal! - from Amzon
Number of Copies
3
