ADRIAN J BOAS

A large variety of herbs grow around Montfort Castle. After a day working in the undergrowth one's hands retain the smell of sage, rue...

Like wealth, poverty is as much an attitude as a condition. For those who are poor, this attitude is so entrenched that to escape from it...

I am not very good with money matters. I do not consider worrying about money to be worth the time and effort. But to be perfectly...

The prickly pear, Opuntia, a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae is a native to the Americas. It was introduced to Australia in the...

Field Marshal Radomir Putnik (1847–1917) served as Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army during the Balkan Wars in 1912 and...

Here in Jerusalem, as is usual in late October, the easterly wind has arrived. This is one of the least pleasant periods of the year,...

My uncle, in his wry humour used to say that the only water he would drink in his whisky was that of Maroondah Reservoir, one of a number...

Many years ago I made the acquaintance of Dr. Zeev Goldmann when we both attended a symposium at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At...

In Independence Park, west of the Old City of Jerusalem, there is a mostly abandoned Muslim cemetery. Near a large and empty stone-lined...

When I was in first grade I tried my hand at a royal portrait - not too bad, I think compared to some official portraits of the queen,...

Until recently, our perception of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was of a world in sepia, or tones of black, grey and...

On field trips in Jerusalem, I often show students certain marks on the facades of shops and houses dating to the Crusader period....

Leo Allatius (1586-1669), a Greek classicist, theologian and keeper of the Vatican library, who published the very useful twelfth century...

Along with names, heraldic carvings and other graffiti markings incised on the walls of medieval buildings, there are also many anonymous...

Modern architecture has its successes and failures. The Torre Velasca in Milan, certainly in my eyes, falls into the latter category....

Accompanied by my wife I arrived this morning in Milan to begin a two week drive through northern Italy and attend a conference in...

When I was about seven my parents moved from a house that they themselves had built in what was then an outer suburb of Melbourne, to an...

Nobody likes to be in hospital, except perhaps doctors, nurses, hypochondriacs and suffers of Munchausen Syndrome. I myself have done my...

I grew up in a country without borders, or at least, without a line on the ground which, to cross over meant that one was entering a...

D.H. Lawrence, in his wonderful poem "Snake", describes how, when coming upon the creature by a water-trough, he underwent an inner...