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Book Title: Parting the Desert : the Creation of the Suez Canal
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Hydraulics, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt), History, Middle East / General, Historical
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, History
Item Weight: 9.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages