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Parting the Desert
by Zachary Karabell
- HISTORY
- 2004
- PAPER
- 336 PAGES
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A compelling account of the politics, intrigue and engineering challenges of the Suez Canal. It's in part a portrait of Franco-Egyptian relations and the making of the modern Middle East. The Canal was inaugurated to great fanfare on November 17, 1869.
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