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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... 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 tombs of the ...
... 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 tombs of the ...
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... Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where people still live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping ...
... Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where people still live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping ...
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... CAIRO AN 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 ...
... CAIRO AN 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 ...
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... CAIRO Native children behind him . THE AUTHOR IN HIS 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 ...
... CAIRO Native children behind him . THE AUTHOR IN HIS 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 ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. 2 Queer Things About Egypt INTRODUCTION Cairo an Arab City of.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. 2 Queer Things About Egypt INTRODUCTION Cairo an Arab City of.
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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