What Is the Panama Canal?
Contributor(s): Pascal, Janet B (Author); Foley, Tim (Illustrator)
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!
Publisher:  Grosset & Dunlap
Pub Date:  07/2014
ISBN:  9780448478999
Binding:  Paperback
BISAC Categories:  Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Central & South America; Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | General