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What Is the Panama Canal?
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780448478999
- ISBN-10: 0448478994
- Publisher: Penguin Workshop
- Publish Date: July 2014
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 112
- Reading Level: Ages 8-12
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