Description:
The first new edition of Narcisse Berchère's account of the construction of the Suez Canal.
Review Quotes:
'Scholars in a variety of fields might profitably engage with Narcisse Berchère's rich discursive and pictorial account of the Suez Canal's construction, one which Wright's impeccable scholarship has now made available to us.'
- Wendelin Guentner, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 41, 2013, pp. 152-55
'This re-edition and informative introduction by Barbara Wright thus puts back into circulation a text that self-consciously promotes the notion that 'canaliser' is a synonym of 'coloniser'. ... This re-edition is invaluable, since the twenty illustrations from Le Tour du monde of 1863, presented in the appendix, are the sole survivors of the commission, a welcome glimpse of Berchère's oeuvre, lost in Versailles during the Commune.'
- Peter Dunwoodie, Modern Language Review, 107, 2012, pp. 625-26