Part travelogue, part narrative history, ` Colour` unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, & reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded & used. This remarkable & beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold, & yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, & how an entire nation was founded on the colour violet. Exciting, richly informative, & always surprising, ` Colour` lifts the lid on the historical palette & unearths an astonishing wealth of stories about the quest for colours, & our efforts to understand them. ...

The Colourful Cactus Foldable Shopping Bag, comes as a compact & colourful pouch in the shape of an Cactus & unfolds into a tote bag featuring a delicate decorative print. Very lightweight, the little Cactus can fit any handbag & be ready to use as an alternative to a plastic bag. The Colourful Cactus Foldable Shopping Bag is ideal for when you pop out to get your lunch or a few items from the shops. ...

From Mali to Peru, from China to Norway, here is a fascinating journey of discovery that captures all the colours of the world & reveals the all-pervasive influence of colour in our lives. Scores of photographs are organized into colour-coded chapters that reveal the many different ways colour is used & perceived around the world. This vibrant book will be a source of inspiration & delight for designers & artists everywhere. ...

This is a selection of attractive pictures for children to colour, based on the powerful & sophisticated civilization of the ancient Aztecs. The Aztecs established a great empire in central Mexico about 600 years ago, before the arrival of the Spanish under Hernan Cortes in 1519. They were a warlike people who exacted tribute from other people, yet they also built great cities & temples, & made beautiful objects of stone, metal, gems & feathers. ...

Adult colouring exploded onto the publishing scene with the huge, runaway international success of Scot Johanna Basford`s Enchanted Forest & Secret Garden books. Here, talented illustrator Laura Henderson takes us on a colouring journey across Scotl&, covering all its most iconic subjects. ...

Make learning fun with this stylish & tactile book of colours. Every page is themed by colour & filled with objects to see & say. Can you find the odd one out on every page? Lift the flaps to see if you were right
- & discover a host of surprises along the way. Bold, eye-catching artwork & sturdy card lift-flaps throughout will make this a favourite with children & adults alike.
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The Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREG), 1972 has been accepted by many States since it was adopted in 1972 & entered into force in July 1977. It was amended in 1981, 1987, 1989, 1993 & 2001. This publication contains the fully consolidated text of the 1972 Convention. It supersedes the 2002 consolidated edition. ...

A col is the lowest point on the saddle between two mountains. Graham Robb has spent years uncovering & cataloguing the 2, 002 cols & 105 passes scattered across the British Isles. Some of these obscure & magical sites are virgin cols that have never been crossed. Dozens were lost by the Ordnance Survey & are recorded only in ballads or monastic charters. The eleven cols of Hadrian`s Wall are practically unknown & have never been properly identified. These underappreciated slices of natural beauty provide a new way of looking at British history, & a challenge for cyclists & walkers. ...

The one & only guide to every col & pass in the British Isles, for cyclists, walkers & armchair travellers. A col is the lowest point on the saddle between two mountains. Graham Robb has spent years uncovering & cataloguing the 2, 002 cols & 105 passes scattered across the British Isles. Some of these obscure & magical sites are virgin cols that have never been crossed. Dozens were lost by the Ordnance Survey & are recorded only in ballads or monastic charters. The eleven cols of Hadrian`s Wall are practically unknown & have never been properly identified. These under-appreciated slices of natural beauty provide a new way of looking at British history, & a challenge for cyclists & walkers. ”A wonderful writer.. . No one else so relishes the odd corners of history”. (Sunday Times). ” He is such a warm, gentle & generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs”. (Evening Standard) Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian & biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature & a Chevalier dans l` Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize & the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize & Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. He lives on the English-Scottish border (and within a day`s ride of one hundred & seventy cols). ...

In May 2013 it will be exactly 1450 years since the arrival on Iona of Columba, the imperious & energetic Irishman of royal descent who founded its famous monastery & became Scotland`s best known Celtic saint. To celebrate this important anniversary, Iona Cathedral Trust has commissioned a new book by the historian Rosalind K. Marshall. Using a wide variety of sources & taking into account the results of the most recent historical & archaeological research, she charts the many developments on Iona throughout the centuries, investigating why it has had such an enduring influence on Scottish life. In our own apparently secular age, thousands of people visit the tiny & remote Hebridean island each year to experience its unique atmosphere of tranquil spirituality. Columba`s wood & wattle buildings have long since vanished, replaced by a Benedictine abbey of stone, but after the Reformation it fell into neglect, languishing for two hundred years as no more than a romantic ruin. In the early twentieth century, however, it was restored by the Church of Scotland`s Iona Cathedral Trust & by the charismatic, controversial George Mac Leod, founder of the Iona Community, an experiment in Christian living which flourishes to this day. ...