The British Library Pocket Diary 2018 gathers together beautiful & fascinating images from the library`s collection of natural history illustrations. Sourced from manuscripts, journals & rare books, the range of nature`s beauty is represented, &

Includes:: birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles & fish. Artists include John J. Audubon, Maria Sybilla Merian, Archibold Thorburn & George Edwards.

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Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Interest in photography has never been higher, with high end digital cameras now ubiquitous & millions of us now expert photographers, regularly documenting the world around us. The British Life Photography Awards exist to celebrate that interest, that expertise & the very best of British reportage, documentary & street photography. One of the most valuable prize funds in the genre, combined with a storied judging panel & the chance to be published, has attracted thousands to enter the competition in its first year. This book collects the winners & celebrates the best of the rest, with hundreds of eye-opening images giving a thought provoking, beautiful & refreshing view of life in the UK today. ...

This is a newly revised & updated edition of this award-winning guide to the arts of China. The book explains why Chinese silks & porcelains, unsurpassed for over a thousand years, have been prized around the world for their fine textures & brilliant colours. Paradoxically, the arts valued most in China have been calligraphy, ink painting, jade carving & bronze casting. The authors explain why, describing the origins of these diverse achievements & setting them in their historical context alongside decorative arts such as lacquer, cloisonne & glass. The wealth of illustrations include well-known blue-&-white Ming ceramics as well as less familiar jades of the Neolithic period & exquisite paintings on silk from the Buddhist Silk Road caves at Dunhuang. ...

There`s a whole world to explore inside the British Museum, & with this beautiful colouring book, readers can take a tour around each civilisation & get creative at the same time! Aspiring artists can pick up their colouring pencils & bring the scenes & objects to life, whilst learning about life in different cultures. From a bustling ancient Greek marketplace to a traditional dragon parade around China`s Forbidden City, & many more spectacular scenes in between, this book is a fantastically fun way to explore different cultures. & with four pages of colour photographic stickers to have fun with too, this is the ideal book to get young readers excited about the British Museum
- & indeed the world! Nosy Crow is working with the British Museum in an exclusive partnership to create a broad range of children`s books to sell to the UK trade & beyond. The British Museum is `a museum of the world, for the world`. It is the UK`s leading visitor attraction & the second most-visited museum in the world. The books draw on the British Museum`s internationally recognised br&, its unparalleled collection of objects & its world-class expertise.
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This joke book is full of side-splittingly hilarious jokes & fascinating facts about civilisations found in the British Museum. Full of bite-size facts about amazing ancient worlds & jokes that will have you howling, Maurice the Museum Mouse`s comical collection is just as entertaining as the British Museum`s own collection. ...

In this seriously silly book, featuring famous faces from the British Museum, children can solve the puzzle by matching up the correct faces on the split pages
- & then mix them all up again to create two thousand hilarious combinations. From an ancient Egyptian mummy to a modern Mexican mask, this book is full of amazing art that provides hours of madcap mix-up fun! With a handy index & a QR code at the end, which parents can scan to learn more about the artefacts featured in the book.
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This little Egyptian girl can`t find her mummy.. .and she needs your help! Could that be her behind the basket? Or is she hiding behind the Sphinx? After discovering a whole host of Egyptian animals, from cats to crocodiles, she discovers that there is more than one kind of mummy! This is an ingenious piece of narrative non-fiction, ending with an adorably reassuring spread as mummy & toddler reunite. Nosy Crow is working with the British Museum in an exclusive partnership to create a broad range of children`s books to sell to the UK trade & beyond. The British Museum is `a museum of the world, for the world`. It is the UK`s leading visitor attraction & the second most visited museum in the world. The books draw on the British Museum`s internationally recognised br&, its unparalleled collection of objects & its world-class expertise. ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, paddle steamers in Britain initially did rather well, with four new ones built between 1946 & 1953 & about sixty still in service nationwide. By 1955 this tide of optimism had turned & from then on it was downhill all the way. In almost every subsequent year, one or two paddle steamers were withdrawn & sometimes it was as many as five or six. By the late 1960s only a handful remained operational &, of these, all except one owed their continued existence to their usefulness as people-movers on the Clyde, Humber or Solent, rather than for excursions. Some, like Freshwater, Princess Elizabeth, Consuland Jeanie Deans, enjoyed temporary new careers on services previously abandoned by their longstanding owners. A few like Medway Queen, Compton Castleand Caledoniabecame nightclubs, cafes or bars. Most ended up under the scrap-dealer`s torch. In this book author John Megoran, who returned the paddle steamer Kingswear Castle to service on the Medway & Thames in 1985, & was her captain & manager for nearly thirty years, explores all the excursion paddle steamers withdrawn from 1955, as well as examining the sort of cruises they ran & what happened to them in their twilight years. ...