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What Is The Panama Canal?

Library Binding (Turtleback Books July 17, 2014) , Reprint edition
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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!
Series
What Is...?
ISBN
0606356886 / 9780606356886
Pages
112
Weight
8.0 oz.
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.5 in.

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