Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Pri

Impossible Engineering\nby Chandra Mukerji\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Chandra Mukerji\nTitle: Impossible Engineering\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of engineering and technology\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9780691140322\nISBN-10: 0691140324\nRRP: \u00A350.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. This book looks at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance.\n\nThe Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlanti.