Recollections of forty years
By: by Ferdinand de Lesseps ; translated by C. B. Pitman.
Contributors: Pitman, C. B.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 1805-1894 -- Biography.; Engineers -- France -- Biography.; Suez Canal (Egypt)
Table of contents: value: I. The mission to Rome. Episodes of 1848 at Paris and Madrid. Rome, Suez, Panama. The origin of the Suez canal.; value: II. The origin of the Suez canal (continued) A question of the day. After the war of 1870-1871. The interoceanic canal and the Congress of 1879. Steam. Algeria and Tunis. Abd-el-kader. Abyssinia. The origin and duties of consuls. The French academy.