What Is the Panama Canal?

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What Is the Panama Canal?
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Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780698171855
ISBN-13 : 0698171853
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Book Synopsis What Is the Panama Canal? by : Janet B. Pascal

Book excerpt: 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!


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