Veld: Veld, (Afrikaans: âfieldâ) name given to various types of open country in Southern Africa that is used for pasturage and farmland. To most South African farmers today the
Introduction-Book of Revelation. The Apostle John is the author of the Book of Revelation. He wrote it when he was about 92 years old, while a prisoner of Rome on the remote desert penal colony of Patmos, an island in the Aegean Sea.Patmos was a quarry mine for the Roman Empire, and was home to many political and religious prisoners or slaves.ohn, the beloved apostle of Jesus, was being held as a prisoner of Rome on this island for his incessant preaching about Jesus. Rome believed that banishing the old man John to the remote and forsaken island of Patmos, that his voice would be quieted.
There, he began writing synopses for MGM and selling stories to various magazines. After a journey to Europe, he returned to the U. S. and settled in New York, where he became friends with fellow writers John Dos Passos, Edward Estlin Cummings, James Agee, and James Farrell.heever's father owned a shoe factory and was relatively well fixed financially until he lost his business in the 1929 stock market crash. After his father deserted the family, young John was understandably upset. Cheever left school at the age of 17 and, like his father, hit the road.