A Compendium of Curious Contraptions : A Guessing Game About History's Most Unusual Artefacts David Baddiel NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An absurdly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An absurdly laugh-out-loud funny picture book about the villainy of fish

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A Compendium of Curious Contraptions : A Guessing Game About History's Most Unusual Artefacts David Baddiel NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An absurdlyThe book features mystery items from the past, with a set of clues as to what each one was used for. Readers can take a guess before unfolding a giant flap to reveal the answer. Without giving too much away, the book contains Inuit snow goggles, designed to protect eyes from the blinding glare of the ice, an ancient Chinese earthquake detector featuring several metal frogs, and err.. the Royal fistula an item used to perform delicate surgery on the