What Is the Panama Canal?
Author | : Janet B. Pascal |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780698171855 |
ISBN-13 | : 0698171853 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis What Is the Panama Canal? by : Janet B. Pascal
Download or read book What Is the Panama Canal? written by Janet B. Pascal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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!