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Parting the Desert - The Creation of the Suez Canal (Paperback)
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Parting the Desert - The Creation of the Suez Canal (Paperback)
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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.
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