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What Is the Panama Canal? - (What Was?) by Janet B Pascal & Who Hq (Paperback)
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- Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States.
- 8-12 Years
- 7.6" x 5.3" Paperback
- 112 Pages
- Juvenile Nonfiction, History
- Series Name: What Was?
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"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 worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal"--Amazon.com.Book Synopsis
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!About the Author
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.Additional product information and recommendations
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