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Robert Stephenson Abroad - Egypt 1847 - 1859. By Alan C Clothier.
Price:	£5.45
Description:	148 x 210, 44pp, ISBN 0 9535 1622 9, softback By the mid nineteenth century the overland transit of Egypt between Alexandria and Suez was becoming the preferred route to the Far East by avoiding the long sea journey via the Cape. This book tells the story of Robert’s project to speed this journey by a railway across Egypt several years before the Suez Canal came to fruition.

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