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
... or that our countries were colonised by them . Not one inch of Europe was ever included in the Empire of the greatest of the Pharaohs . But civilisation makes us all one country , and civilisation was born viii Preface.
... or that our countries were colonised by them . Not one inch of Europe was ever included in the Empire of the greatest of the Pharaohs . But civilisation makes us all one country , and civilisation was born viii Preface.
Page ix
... Pharaohs and their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it was to be put . The Carthaginians and Etruscans frankly borrowed their ...
... Pharaohs and their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it was to be put . The Carthaginians and Etruscans frankly borrowed their ...
Page x
... Pharaohs were to be revived the Edfu temple would only need the attentions of the upholsterer . For majesty , the ruins of others , such as Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary ...
... Pharaohs were to be revived the Edfu temple would only need the attentions of the upholsterer . For majesty , the ruins of others , such as Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary ...
Page xiii
... Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in ...
... Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in ...
Page xvii
... PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI ...
... PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI ...
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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