ADRIAN J BOAS

In the late 1980's I directed an archaeological excavation at a small crusader fortress in the Jordan Valley town of Bait She'an. When...

When I began basic training in the army, we were issued with Second World War 98k Mausers of Czechoslovakian manufacture, refurbished by...

Maps are wonderful things; they are both informative and stimulating of the imagination. Halfway between text and illustration, they fuel...

The debate over what to do about invasive species has been much in the media of late. It seems that climate change is partly, perhaps...

A minor traffic accident this week left me stranded for several hours waiting for a tow truck on the roadside in the Druze town of...

If you think about it, from the moment we open our eyes in the morning we begin to be inundated by experiences that overwhelm all our...

In memory of my Father-in-Law, Izhak Kohai - a beautiful soul Going through my father’s Second World War photographs, most of which are...

Each year since 1961 the central Australian town of Alice Springs holds a major sporting event - the Henley-on-Todd Regatta. Up to 20,000...

Immediately after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel recovered or occupied (depending on one's point of view) the Old City of...

We all make mistakes. It is a human quality, not a condemnable fault if unintentional, though it certainly is if repeated. For that...

A little piece of badly corroded metal, fragile, greyish-brown and hardly distinguishable in colour or texture from the encasing soil, it...

Great art, in all its fields is devotional art, devotional rather than religious in the sense that in its making, the artist is devoted...

In late 1964 a television show imported from Japan became a cult among children in Australia. The Samurai (which I have mentioned in an...

My grandfather, a chemist by trade became involved in the timber industry in Australia. He made a quest of resolving the difficulties in...

Street names are important. They say a lot about the society that uses them and about the people and events that were regarded as...

In the early years of the twentieth century a largely forgotten fourteen-year-old apprentice blacksmith named Gilbert Toyne made one of...

One day my mother brought a duckling home from the school bazaar. It was a delightful tiny creature, a squeaking ball of yellow fluff...

Some of my paternal ancestors were bankers in Holland, one of my great-great-grandfathers was a pencil manufacturer in London (in family...

Many among us regret the passing of simpler times, times when the sole purpose of a telephone was to communicate with someone. Mobile...

As I was exceptionally fond of sugar in all its forms, I spent a fair amount of time in my childhood visiting the dentist. Appointments...