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 ix
... Thebes , and of their viziers at Memphis , which have the whole life of ancient Egypt illuminated on their smooth limestone walls , and have yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to ...
... Thebes , and of their viziers at Memphis , which have the whole life of ancient Egypt illuminated on their smooth limestone walls , and have yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to ...
Page x
... Thebes . In the Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed ...
... Thebes . In the Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed ...
Page xvii
... 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 . PHILE THE ...
... 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 . PHILE THE ...
Page xxii
... THEBES GYASSAS ON THE NILE · With the hills of Thebes in the background . 239 250 251 KHARGA VILLAGE , IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Children collected round the village fountain . 274 UNDER PROTEST 275 To mount a camel a lady ...
... THEBES GYASSAS ON THE NILE · With the hills of Thebes in the background . 239 250 251 KHARGA VILLAGE , IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Children collected round the village fountain . 274 UNDER PROTEST 275 To mount a camel a lady ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF MEMNON AT THEBES It and its fellow are usually called the Colossi of Thebes . They are loftier than the great Buddha of Kamakura in Japan . The right - hand Colossus is supposed ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF MEMNON AT THEBES It and its fellow are usually called the Colossi of Thebes . They are loftier than the great Buddha of Kamakura in Japan . The right - hand Colossus is supposed ...
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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