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Lessepsian Migration - The Influx of Red Sea Biota into the Mediterranean by Way of the Suez Canal (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
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Lessepsian Migration - The Influx of Red Sea Biota into the Mediterranean by Way of the Suez Canal (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978)
Series: Ecological Studies, 23
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There are few achievements of modern man which can compare to the
Suez Canal. In Egypt-the land of the most famous wonders of
antiquity-the Suez Canal was built as the first technical wonder
ofthe industrial revolution. Ferdinand de Lesseps was a man
straddling two epochs-the romantic utopism of Saint Simon and the
modern world of technocracy. The gigantic project was at its start
shouldered by the crowds of tens of thousands of forced laborers
still available and ended as a show-piece for modern mechanical
earth-moving techniques. The canal builders themselves were still
polyhistors in the old sense: engineers cum-zoologists; naval
officers-cum-geologists; diplomats meddling with chem istry. During
the four generations of the existence of the Suez Canal, the
fateful professional narrowmindedness became progressively worse.
The engineers con tinued their work in and around the Canal, but
they became oblivious and unresponsive to the environmental impact,
to the fascinating changes in the biotic scenery which they were
producing with their own hands."
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