# What Is the Panama Canal?

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- Book: [What Is the Panama Canal?](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-b-pascal/what-is-the-panama-canal) ([What Is the Panama Canal?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-b-pascal/what-is-the-panama-canal.md))
- Authors: [Janet B. Pascal](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-b-pascal), [Who HQ](https://www.bookquiver.com/who-hq), [Tim Foley](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-foley)
- Publisher: penguin_workshop
- ISBN: 978-04-4847-899-9
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2014-07-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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....