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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... ENGLISH : THE TRAGEDY OF THE PYRAMIDS " ; " ' THE SECREts of the VATICAN " ; " THE JAPS AT HOME " ; QUEER THINGS ABOUT JAPAN , " ETC. , ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY - FIVe intimate pictures of country life in UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS ...
... ENGLISH : THE TRAGEDY OF THE PYRAMIDS " ; " ' THE SECREts of the VATICAN " ; " THE JAPS AT HOME " ; QUEER THINGS ABOUT JAPAN , " ETC. , ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY - FIVe intimate pictures of country life in UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS ...
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... English could run Egypt on the same principles as the French run Tunis all would be well . Firm paternal government is what the Egyptian requires . He is not irreconcilable , he is not keen , he is not pertinacious ; he is merely ...
... English could run Egypt on the same principles as the French run Tunis all would be well . Firm paternal government is what the Egyptian requires . He is not irreconcilable , he is not keen , he is not pertinacious ; he is merely ...
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... 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 . QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT ...
... 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 . QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT ...
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... mediæval splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages II.
... mediæval splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages II.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English as She is Wrote in Egypt " SUHAG ( KISM ) [ UPP . EGYPT ] . " At the First of April 1900 . 1 " Messrs ... ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English as She is Wrote in Egypt " SUHAG ( KISM ) [ UPP . EGYPT ] . " At the First of April 1900 . 1 " Messrs ... ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT.
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