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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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. QUEER THINGS ABOUT EGYPT z1I_.\~K Hing“ .R_.\.I_/ .:T00~~ ~. 1» M U.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. QUEER THINGS ABOUT EGYPT z1I_.\~K Hing“ .R_.\.I_/ .:T00~~ ~. 1» M U.
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... Egyptians - many of their tombs might have been hewn out by Egyptian artificers , and they are rich in Egyptian jewels and implements . Through them , as well as direct , the Greeks and Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what ...
... Egyptians - many of their tombs might have been hewn out by Egyptian artificers , and they are rich in Egyptian jewels and implements . Through them , as well as direct , the Greeks and Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what ...
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... Egyptian had as much sense as the Greek - out of Greece - there would be no other . The Greek knows when he is well off . He is as willing to live under other people's governments as the Jew , if those governments can ensure him ...
... Egyptian had as much sense as the Greek - out of Greece - there would be no other . The Greek knows when he is well off . He is as willing to live under other people's governments as the Jew , if those governments can ensure him ...
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... Egyptian does any productive work except as a clerk or an agricultural labourer . The Egyptian student abroad is said by those who know him best to show no great capacity for picking up anything but bad habits . He is also generally ...
... Egyptian does any productive work except as a clerk or an agricultural labourer . The Egyptian student abroad is said by those who know him best to show no great capacity for picking up anything but bad habits . He is also generally ...
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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