What Is the Panama Canal?

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

Author: Janet B. Pascal, Who Hq
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 07/17/2014
Series: What Was…
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780448478999
Language: English