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
... Luxor , that has never known a winter , has a Winter Palace - a hotel on the same palatial scale . At the one , the northerner , flying from winter , can have his golf , his tennis , his croquet , his riding , and his sailing , in the ...
... Luxor , that has never known a winter , has a Winter Palace - a hotel on the same palatial scale . At the one , the northerner , flying from winter , can have his golf , his tennis , his croquet , his riding , and his sailing , in the ...
Page xiii
... Luxor , where you are within a short walk of the finest ruins in Egypt , while you are staying in a most luxurious hotel ; and the gay winter season which society spends in Assuan , " the City of the Idle Rich . " Cairo is an Arab ...
... Luxor , where you are within a short walk of the finest ruins in Egypt , while you are staying in a most luxurious hotel ; and the gay winter season which society spends in Assuan , " the City of the Idle Rich . " Cairo is an Arab ...
Page xiv
... Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the 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 ...
... Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the 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 ...
Page xvii
... LUXOR , THE CITY OF THE LOTUS - EATER · 277 296 • 303 XXX . THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE ...
... LUXOR , THE CITY OF THE LOTUS - EATER · 277 296 • 303 XXX . THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE ...
Page xix
... 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 . FELLAHIN ...
... 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 . FELLAHIN ...
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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