Édouard Riou
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Édouard Riou was a French illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works.
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Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur, 1863
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1867
Riou's depiction for La terre avant le deluge of Iguanodon battling Megalosaurus
Suez Canal
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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. It is the border between Africa a
Édouard Riou
…supplying designs for wood-engravings, his artistic specialties included landscape painting and commemorative art (including works for the opening of the Suez Canal and the marriage of a daughter of the Czar). His collaboration with Jules Verne started in 1865 with the publication of Verne's novel Five Weeks in a…
The Suez Canal from space, showing the Great Bitter Lake at the centre (after the 2015 expansion)
As seen from the International Space Station (from a nominal altitude of 400 kilometres (250 miles))
An aerial view looking north towards the town of Suez
Suez Canal, 1869