What Is the Panama Canal? - Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ & Tim Foley

By Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ & Tim Foley

Release Date: 2014-07-17

Genre: History for Kids

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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. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

What Is the Panama Canal? - Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ & Tim Foley

By Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ & Tim Foley

Release Date: 2014-07-17

Genre: History for Kids

(0 ratings)
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. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

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