These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.

[…]they also are blessedly free of the uptight, sunnily upbeat, politically correct tone that has crept into more recent incarnations.

The male peacock is colorationally different from the female peahen.

For several decades, now, he [the modern artist] has taken the liberty of learning how to draw and compose by studying and borrowing ideas from the high periods in all art, as far back as prehistoric cave painting.