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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... Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 FACING PAGE THE AVENUE OF SPHINXES AND PTOLEMAIC PYLON AT List of Illustrations xxi.
... Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 FACING PAGE THE AVENUE OF SPHINXES AND PTOLEMAIC PYLON AT List of Illustrations xxi.
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... Mehemet Ali , were , the former , rebuilt in the eighteenth century , and the latter built alto- gether in the nineteenth . The Mosque of Mehemet Ali , whose beauties are all external , and depend on distance for enchantment , is the ...
... Mehemet Ali , were , the former , rebuilt in the eighteenth century , and the latter built alto- gether in the nineteenth . The Mosque of Mehemet Ali , whose beauties are all external , and depend on distance for enchantment , is the ...
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... Mehemet Ali determined to remove them at a single blow . He asked them all to a state reception , and gave them a splendid escort of his choicest troops to take them home . When the whole cortège was between the middle gate of the ...
... Mehemet Ali determined to remove them at a single blow . He asked them all to a state reception , and gave them a splendid escort of his choicest troops to take them home . When the whole cortège was between the middle gate of the ...
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... Mehemet Ali , rivalling the marvellous skyline of the Golden Horn . Behind the mosque and the tombs are the Golden Hills of the Mokattam range , with their horizon of desert broken by antique mosques , the true Citadel for Cairo . In El ...
... Mehemet Ali , rivalling the marvellous skyline of the Golden Horn . Behind the mosque and the tombs are the Golden Hills of the Mokattam range , with their horizon of desert broken by antique mosques , the true Citadel for Cairo . In El ...
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... Mehemet Ali a century ago determined to restore Alexandria , so that his name might be coupled with Alexander the Great's , the city had dwindled down to a village of 5,000 inhabitants . The cutting of the Mahmûdiya Canal made ...
... Mehemet Ali a century ago determined to restore Alexandria , so that his name might be coupled with Alexander the Great's , the city had dwindled down to a village of 5,000 inhabitants . The cutting of the Mahmûdiya Canal made ...
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