EditorialAdam and Eve outside Paradise. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] An angel guards the buttressed gatehouse of Paradise. Outside, Eve sits spinning. The spindle suggests she is spinning flax, not wool. Adam digs the virg...
EditorialTHE South African plains vary in character, some gently undulating, clad with long grass, others more flat, covered with dense bush for miles, without grass—some dotted only with stunted thorns. The travellers have met the mail on the march, and when...