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  • Canal House Cooking Volume N° 1

    Summer

    Series Book 1 - Canal House Cooking
    Eighty-one delicious triple-tested recipes specially designed for summer come together in a vibrantly illustrated cookbook as beautiful as it is functional.CANAL HOUSE COOKING, VOLUME N° 1, SUMMER is a collection of our favorite summer recipes, ones we cook for ourselves all through the long lazy months. We are home cooks writing about home cooking for other home cooks. We cook seasonally because ... Read more

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  • Building the Panama Canal

    The building of the Panama Canal was one of the great engineering feats of the twentieth century. For hundreds of years, mankind had dreamed about cutting through the Isthmus of Panama to build a canal, but the jungle, insects, and the damp, humid conditions had always combined to defeat any and all attempts to construct the waterway. It took the discovery of the mosquito as a disease carrier, the ... Read more

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  • Buon Appetito

    A Taste of Italy

    Series series Canal House Cooking
    Create an at-home Italian vacation with these 23 inspiring recipes from two James Beard Award winners.BUON APPETITO: A Taste of Italy from Canal House Cooking is a collection of our favorite Italian-inspired recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families all throughout the year. From sumptuous antipasti like our eggplant caponata to fresh, flavorful main dishes like grilled ... Read more

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  • The Panama Canal

    Great book over the entire history of the Panamal Canal. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Erie Canal

    The Erie Canal was a preposterous idea. Even President Thomas Jefferson, usually ahead of his time, believed that it could not be built for at least a century, and yet, the Erie Canal came to be just as its planners had thought it would. For the first time in the history of the United States, a cheap, fast route ran through the Appalachians, the mountains that had so effectively divided the West ... Read more

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  • The Canal Pioneers

    Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century

    A "superbly told" history of canals and the men who built them, from ancient empires to modern civilization—includes photos and illustrations ( Narrow Boat).Stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal, and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but ... Read more

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  • The Suez Canal

    Critics said Ferdinand de Lesseps's ambitious scheme to link the waters of the Mediterranean and Red seas - thus cutting 5,800 miles off the India to Europe ocean voyage - was impractical, unwise, and even foolish. The hostile, empty desert of the Isthmus of Suez posed a seemingly insurmountable geographical challenge to the builder's ingenuity and persistence. During the ten years of its ... Read more

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  • Gulp

    Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

    by Mary Roach ...
    New York Times Bestseller—A scientific adventure through our digestive tract, from the author of Stiff and Packing for Mars ."Her funniest and most sparkling book" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ).In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks—or has the courage—to ask. Why is crunchy food so app... ... Read more

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  • Canal House Cooking Volume N° 1

    CANAL HOUSE COOKING, VOLUME N° 1, SUMMER is a collection of our favorite summer recipes, ones we cook for ourselves all through the long lazy months.We are home cooks writing about home cooking for other home cooks. We cook seasonally because thats what makes sense. In midsummer, we buy boxes of tomatoes to dress as minimally as we do in the heat. And in the height of the season, we preserve all ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • PANAMA CANAL BY CRUISE SHIP – 6th Edition

    The Complete Guide to Cruising the Panama Canal

    by ANNE VIPOND ...
    One of the greatest peacetime epics of human endeavor, the creation of the Panama Canal captured, for decades, the world's imagination. Now a major cruise destination, the Canal was the 'moon launch' of its day, plunging France into near financial and political ruin before becoming the crowning achievement of America under President Theodore Roosevelt, ushering in an era of global trade and ... Read more

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  • How Wall Street Created a Nation

    The Untold History of the Panama Canal

    How Wall Street Created a Nation: The Untold History of the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canal House Cooking Volume N° 2

    Fall & Holiday

    Series Book 2 - Canal House Cooking
    Autumn recipes from Sourdough-Sage Stuffing to Grand Marnier Soufflé: "Well suited to the home cook who revels in the simple pleasures of the table" ( Saveur).CANAL HOUSE COOKING, VOLUME N° 2, FALL & HOLIDAY is filled with recipes that will make you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking. It is a collection of our favorite fall and holiday recipes. We are home cooks writing about home ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus