[COMPLETE] The History of the Suez Canal by de Lesseps - ava

[Availle]

The History of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 1894). Translated by Henry Drummond-Wolff (1830 - 1908)

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A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in Paris, in April 1870 by de Lesseps himself. ( Availle)

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[Availle]

A cute one for in between, although that second part... How can anyone talk that long?

DPL wanted!

[annise]

Sounds interesting - would you like me ?

Anne

[Availle]

Certainly!

I still have to edit the final two sections of my color project, but after that we're ready to go!

[Availle]

I have uploaded the preface.

As for that table, I made the executive decision to forgo the "thousandth" and simply read it as bignumber POINT smallnumber. I declare that as OK

[Availle]

I have uploaded the final section.

The one in between will come... eventually...

[Availle]

And here is the middle section of this project. Not quite as long as I thought it might be - I guess I'm reading faster and faster the longer I'm on here?

[annise]

All done and PL OK
An interesting book - one does wonder exactly how people decided the oceans were at different levels- different tides yes but different levels ? . I'd not realised that the canal itself opened up the desert for humans, nowadays they would have to get an enviromental impact study - all those people probably wiped out a few sub species

Anne

[Availle]

I found his account very interesting too. Imagine he could just waltz up to the viceroy and get stuff done... I mean, there's probably more to that, but it must have been significantly easier then than it would be today.

I'm sure things would be run differently than today. I'm not sure whether this whole environmentalism and technological caution is a good thing everywhere and all the time...

Anyway, thanks for listening! Will get this into the catalog a bit later tonight.

[Availle]

We're done here, thanks for listening Anne!

This project is now complete. All files can be found on the catalog page:
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