Great Exhibition of 1851 A Nation on Display

"It is a famous story: the gardener, the Prince, the greenhouse and the railway.The railway; that miracle of inanimate propulsion, annihilating space and time; creating and re-creating whole communities; encompassing in its tentacles city and suburb, parish and hamlet, in one vast, steam-powered metropolis of speed. Without it, the Great Exhibition could never have happened. Jeffrey A. Averbach makes that very clear in his compelling new study of the phenomenon of 1851."Auerbach, Jeffrey is the author of 'Great Exhibition of 1851 A Nation on Display' with ISBN 9780300080070 and ISBN 0300080077.