Between Two Seas The Creation of the Suez Canal Lord Kinross

Between Two Seas The Creation of the Suez Canal 

Author: Lord Kinross 

Publisher: John Murray, London, England     

Edition: First 1969 

ISBN: 7195 1813 x 

Language: English s

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding

Binding: Hardcover with coloured boards         

Pages: 306. Print with images    

Additional Information

The book coincides with the centenary anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal. It covers the story of its creation, and the political and personal forces involved in it. The international waterway, which changed the worlds geography and helped to change its history. 

In 1858, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Compagnie de Suez for the express purpose of building the canal. Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869. The canal officially opened on 17 November 1869. It offers vessels a direct route between the North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans and reducing the journey distance from the Arabian Sea to London by approximately 8,900 kilometres (5,500 mi), to 10 days at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) or 8 days at 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph). The canal extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port Tewfik at the city of Suez. In 2021, more than 20,600 vessels traversed the canal (an average of 56 per day). 

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