Recollections of forty years
By: by Ferdinand de Lesseps. Translated by C.B. Pitman.
Contributors: Pitman, C. B., tr.
Publisher: D. Appleton and company
Published: 1888
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Engineers -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc; Suez Canal (Egypt)
Table of contents: title: I. The mission to Rome. Episodes of 1848 at Paris and Madrid. Rome, Suez, Panama. The origin of the Suez canal.- 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.