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 x
... Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are ...
... Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are ...
Page xiv
... Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream ...
... Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream ...
Page xvii
... BEAUTIES OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
... BEAUTIES OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
Page xix
... Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey ...
... Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey ...
Page xx
... Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the ...
... Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the ...
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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