canals

Traces the history of canals and canal building in America, from the first American canals to the building of the Panama Canal and the recent work done on the Illinois Waterway.

A history of American canals and the people who built them during the nineteenth century.

Describes canals throughout the world, discussing materials and building technologies, functions and locations of important canals, and examples of famous canals in history.

In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.

Describes the designing, construction, and operation of an imaginary nineteenth-century canal, based upon similar histories of real canals.

Traces the development of America's early canals, particularly the Erie Canal, which enabled people to travel to places that rivers could not take them.

Etta, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century Connecticut, meets a boy living in an abandoned cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal and has adventures with him while trying to be reunited with her siblings.

Discusses the role of rivers and other waterways in the settlement of America, and looks at how increased use of water routes led to the building of canals.

Discusses early attempts to build a canal across Panama, describes the trials workers faced in the process of constructing the Panama Canal, including widespread yellow fever and malaria, and explains how the canal is used.