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Published May 19, 2004

Parting the Desert:

The Creation of the Suez Canal

By Zachary Karabell

Vintage,

310 pp., $23.

When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, it was rightly regarded as one of the marvels of the modern world. Popular historian Zachary Karabell, in writing the story of the Canal's creation, brings the nineteenth century...

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