#labourers
The Suez Canal remains, in the imagination of the world, as one of the most fantastic works of engineering ever accomplished. Who would have imagined that it was possible to unite two seas, so that large ships could cross from one to the other, shortening long distance trips circumnavigating all of Africa? It was a display of the human capacities in re-shaping the planet to meet our needs. Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man behind the project of the Suez…
