canals

Discusses man-made canals used throughout the world for irrigation, transportation, and drainage.

Photographs and simple text provides young readers with information on canals.

Based on the life of the author's great-grandmother and set in the late 1800s in a Pa. canal town, this is the story of one girl's determination under the most oppressive circumstances.

A fourteen-year-old orphan with a mysterious past is sentenced to death during the turmoil of building the first cross-country canal in eighteenth-century England.

A History of American Canal Engineering.

Describes how the building of the Suez Canal was not only the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century, but also symbolized the hopes and dreams of two vastly different cultures.

A historical look at the Panama Canal, examining its design and construction.