Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010, Hardback - Paul Greenhalgh

A history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.

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A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.

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