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William B. Fisher
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Geography, University of Durham, England, 1956–81. Author of The Middle East; editor of Cambridge History of Iran (vol. 1).

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Cargo ships travel along the wide Suez Canal in Egypt, bordered by sandy desert on one side and greenery on the other.
Suez Canal, sea-level waterway running north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. The canal separates Africa from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans. It…
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