It would be difficult to justify A Guide to the Hamburg Rules on value for money grounds. £75 is arguably a lot for a paperback of 83 pages including index, albeit that the pages are A4-sized, especially as a substantial part of the book is given over to appendices, leaving a mere 47 pages of text. There is also rather a lot of repetition. The main body of the text is an article-by-article commentary on the Hamburg Rules, with each article being followed first by extracts from UNCTAD’s explanatory booklet on the Convention, The Economic and Commercial Implications of the Entry into Force of the Hamburg Rules and the Multimodal Transport Convention (1987), TD/B/C.4/315 (Part 1), and then by the author’s own comments. Thus, the entirety of the Hamburg Rules appears in the text. It is not easy to justify, therefore, devoting the full 10 pages of Appendix 2 to setting them out again. The text of the Hague Rules follows in Appendix 3, then in Appendix 4 the Brussels Protocol, followed by the Hague-Visby Rules in full, as enacted in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 (as amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1981). No doubt this would be of the greatest value to a researcher tracing the historical development of the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, but