Author: Sun Zhen (Editor -in Chief)
Title: The Grand Canal of China
Description: Hong Kong, South China Morning Post Ltd. / New China News Ltd., 1984, 1ste druk. 28,8 x 24,3 x 3 cm., Hardcover (cloth back), met stofomslag. 251 pagina's. Color Illustrations. ISBN/EAN: 9789621000255. Conditie: Good, lichte verkleuring van de band, verder goed. . China's Grand Canal may not have attained the stature of the Great Wall or the Pyramids of Egypt as one of the world's ancient wonders, but it most certainly ranks with these two as one of man's most impressive engineering achievements. The seven major sections of the Grand Canal together comprise a continuous 2,500 kilometres of man-made inland waterway which stretches over some of the world's most difficult terrain. Eleven times longer than the Sues Canal and twenty-two times the length of the Panama Canal, it is an extraordinary and unrivaled accomplishment in hydraulic engineering..

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