Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
by Zachary Karabell
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Author: Zachary KarabellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-11
ISBN: 037570812X
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Vintage
Book Reviews of Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
Book Review: review of a greek,born and grown up in suez canal
Summary: 5 Stars
although i did not finish it yet,i am sure that it is a very good book,with many details,absolutely useful for anyone interested in this very important part of the world.
Summary of Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
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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