What Is the Panama Canal?
$20.44
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2014
Summary
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Not only is this palindrome clever, it also gives a brief description of the Panama Canal, celebrating its 100th year in 2014!
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780448478999 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0448478994 |
| Author: | Janet B. Pascal, Tim Foley, Who HQ |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 135mm x 7mm |
| Series: | What Was? |
About The Author
Janet B. Pascal
Janet Pascal is an Executive Production Editor at Viking Children’s Books and the author of Who Was Dr. Seuss?, Who Was Maurice Sendak?, and Who Was Abraham Lincoln? She lives in New York City.
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