What is the Panama Canal?
Pascal, Janet B.
What is the Panama Canal? by Janet B. Pascal ; illustrated by Tim Foley - New York, NY Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017 - 108 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates ill., maps - What was .
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Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.
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!
9780448478999 (pbk)
Canals--Design and construction--History--Panama--Juvenile literature
Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Juvenile literature
972. 87/5
What is the Panama Canal? by Janet B. Pascal ; illustrated by Tim Foley - New York, NY Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017 - 108 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates ill., maps - What was .
Lexile not found
Hat is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.
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!
9780448478999 (pbk)
Canals--Design and construction--History--Panama--Juvenile literature
Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Juvenile literature
972. 87/5