History of the Suez Canal (Pocket)
avFerdinand De Lesseps, Henry Drummond (TRN) Wolff, Ferdinand De Lesseps
ISBN: 9781108026383 - UTGIVEN: 2011-02In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez, and, thanks to his good relations with the Viceroy of Egypt, won approval for the project in the face of British and Turkish opposition. Thi[...]
Recollections of Forty Years 2 Volume Set (Övrigt)
avFerdinand de Lesseps
ISBN: 9781108026413 - UTGIVEN: 201103The French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) was instrumental in the successful completion of the Suez Canal, which reduced by 3000 miles the distance by sea between Bombay and London. This two-volume memoir, written towards the end of his life and dedicated to his children, was[...]
The Suez Canal (Häftad)
avFerdinand de Lesseps
ISBN: 9781108026420 - UTGIVEN: 201102In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distance by sea between Bombay and London, and he was instr[...]
