# Parting the Desert

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- Book: [Parting the Desert](https://www.bookquiver.com/zachary-karabell/parting-the-desert) ([Parting the Desert.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zachary-karabell/parting-the-desert.md))
- Authors: [Zachary Karabell](https://www.bookquiver.com/zachary-karabell)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7570-812-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2004-05-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world. The dream...