The Suez Canal Lesseps D’Anvers Paperback Cambridge University Press

The Suez CanalLetters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 18541856\nAuthor(s): Ferdinand de Lesseps, N. DAnvers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108026420, 978-1108026420\nSynopsis\nIn the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps [tel] revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distance by sea between Bombay and London, and he was instrumental in its successful completion. These letters, published in this English translation in 1876, show how De Lesseps persuaded the Viceroy of Egypt to allow construction, and how he overcame opposition from Britain and Turkey. Letters to the Viceroy, Emperor Napoleon III, Members of Parliament, diplomats, and politicians throughout Europe, together with more personal letters to his wife, all illustrate his.