Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal Du MIDI by Chandra Mukerji

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal Du MIDI

Chandra Mukerji

227 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Imp...

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