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 xiii
... Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where ...
... Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where ...
Page xvi
... Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 210 XXII . ROSETTA • XXIII . ABÛKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE ...
... Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 210 XXII . ROSETTA • XXIII . ABÛKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE ...
Page xvi
... Nile—Fz-om Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE A VISIT TO THE FAYUM, THE LAND OF A ...
... Nile—Fz-om Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE A VISIT TO THE FAYUM, THE LAND OF A ...
Page xx
... NILE 85 THE BARBER'S SHOP IN THE CATTLE - MARKET AT LUXOR . 94 THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH Desert Arabs in charge . CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum . 95 THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET 106 Which all Cook's ...
... NILE 85 THE BARBER'S SHOP IN THE CATTLE - MARKET AT LUXOR . 94 THE CAMEL MARKET AT GIZEH Desert Arabs in charge . CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum . 95 THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET 106 Which all Cook's ...
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... NILE The sea beyond is Abukir Bay , in which Nelson won the Battle of the Nile . The French held this castle during the battle . 222 A FELLAH'S FARM NEAR KARNAK 223 In the foreground are a pair of baby buffaloes . A FELLAH FAMILY IN THE ...
... NILE The sea beyond is Abukir Bay , in which Nelson won the Battle of the Nile . The French held this castle during the battle . 222 A FELLAH'S FARM NEAR KARNAK 223 In the foreground are a pair of baby buffaloes . A FELLAH FAMILY 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