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!
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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 world's most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!
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Brand: Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher Date: 06/26/2014
Author: Janet Pascal, Tim Foley(Illustrator) & Fred Harper(Illustrator)
Dimensions: 7.63 x 5.31
UPC: 9780448478999
Ages: 8-12
Pages: 112
