7. Winds: the text has wines, but this is clearly a typo.
There are "micrographic" illustrations in which miniature lines of Hebrew text wind around images of Jerusalem or bend into a portrait of the biblical Samson.
Here, in a less well-known text, Wind of Change, is the Fred I knew and loved: Come, O Holy Spirit... Blow away the cobwebs of our stubborn past.
The most satisfying, perhaps, is to be swept along by a powerful bass or baritone in the title role of the combative prophet, as he roars through the work like the "mighty wind" of the text that "rent the mountains around".
An understated text winds its way across each page, the voice of Maggie, the granddaughter.
Weighed down with extraordinarily unpredictable metaphors, the text winds tentatively towards the children's culminating act of self-determination.
PDF documents open on the Reader, too, but most are too big for the Reader screen, so the text winds up shrunk down to illegibility.
This is the sort of book you keep handling as you read, tilting and turning it so as not to miss a phrase as the text winds its way across mountains, seas and deserts.
It's a vanishingly rare pleasure, given the commercial constraints of modern publishing, to handle 600 smoothly weighty pages in which the printed text winds its way seamlessly among more than 200 glorious, often full-color illustrations.
A bit of "Gone with the Wind," the Ur-text of all contemporary romance fiction, clings to "The Man in Grey" (the title refers to Rohan, who is known by his sartorial trademark; perhaps his cutaways come in all 50 shades).
