When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
For Incas, knots may have been worth a thousand words By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times Monday, August 18, 2003 Of all the major Bronze Age civilizations, only the Inca of South America appeared to lack a written language, an...
The weaver, at work on his loom, contorts with pain as the priest beats him with a bough. This 1615 drawing and others by a Peruvian Indian are reproduced as a poignant counterpoint to the Textile Museum's new exhibit, "Fabric of the Inca Empire:...
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