Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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... Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted ...
... Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted ...
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... Arabian art are those in medieval Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where ... Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of ...
... Arabian art are those in medieval Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where ... Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of ...
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... ARAB CITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES . I CHAP . PART I Anecdotes Illustrating the Egyptian Character I. ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT II . ON THE HUMOURS OF THE SUFFRAGI , THE 12 EGYPTIAN SERVANT • 31 III . HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO 42 IV ...
... ARAB CITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES . I CHAP . PART I Anecdotes Illustrating the Egyptian Character I. ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT II . ON THE HUMOURS OF THE SUFFRAGI , THE 12 EGYPTIAN SERVANT • 31 III . HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO 42 IV ...
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... ARAB DRESS Frontispiece · FACING PAGE 4 THE POTTERS ' MARKET , WITH MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and ...
... ARAB DRESS Frontispiece · FACING PAGE 4 THE POTTERS ' MARKET , WITH MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and ...
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... ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding ... Arabs in charge . CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum . 95 THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET 106 ...
... ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding ... Arabs in charge . CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum . 95 THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET 106 ...
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Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt ANGELES antique Antony Arab asked Assuan bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine blue built Cæsar Cairo CALIFORN called camels canal Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colonnades colour columns cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey donkey-boys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Fayum feet fellahin French galabeah garden Greek humours hundred Italian Joseph Julius Cæsar Karnak Khedive King ladies lake land LIBRARY live look Luxor mediæval Mehemet Ali meshrebiya miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mummy native never night Nile oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs photographs piastres picturesque police Ptolemies pylon railway Rameses Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand servants shillings side steamer Sudan suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women