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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Page viii
... Egypt : it is so dry , so genial , so equable , so wedded to blue skies and pageants of sunrise and sunset . Such is the call of Egypt's climate . There remains the call of the Motherland . I do not mean by this that any of us - except ...
... Egypt : it is so dry , so genial , so equable , so wedded to blue skies and pageants of sunrise and sunset . Such is the call of Egypt's climate . There remains the call of the Motherland . I do not mean by this that any of us - except ...
Page ix
... Egypt . There is no historical and attested antiquity to compare with that of Egypt and Chaldæa . The Chinese and Japanese use large figures ; but their proofs get shaky no further back than the Middle Ages . The world - power of ...
... Egypt . There is no historical and attested antiquity to compare with that of Egypt and Chaldæa . The Chinese and Japanese use large figures ; but their proofs get shaky no further back than the Middle Ages . The world - power of ...
Page x
... Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the Caliphs as strongly as the call of the temples of ...
... Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the Caliphs as strongly as the call of the temples of ...
Page xi
... Egypt is in his hands . He may be a book - keeper in a merchant's office or an assistant in a shop , but the business will belong to some one else . The wealth of Egyptians ... Egyptian desires to serve Preface xi THE man abouT TOWN IN EGYPT.
... Egypt is in his hands . He may be a book - keeper in a merchant's office or an assistant in a shop , but the business will belong to some one else . The wealth of Egyptians ... Egyptian desires to serve Preface xi THE man abouT TOWN IN EGYPT.
Page xii
... Egypt is on the brink of a Revolution unless the nettle is firmly grasped . I gave him a very complete diagnosis in Egypt and the English . Now I take up my pen to describe the humours of Egyptian society , Egyptian servants , and ...
... Egypt is on the brink of a Revolution unless the nettle is firmly grasped . I gave him a very complete diagnosis in Egypt and the English . Now I take up my pen to describe the humours of Egyptian society , Egyptian servants , and ...
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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