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
... Ancient Egyptians , 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.
... Ancient Egyptians , 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
... 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 picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For ...
... 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 picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For ...
Page x
... ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the Caliphs as strongly as the call of the ...
... ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the Caliphs as strongly as the call of the ...
Page xiii
... ancient and perfect of monuments are those of Pharaonic Egypt ; the most exquisite monuments of Arabian art are those in medieval Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where people still live and ...
... ancient and perfect of monuments are those of Pharaonic Egypt ; the most exquisite monuments of Arabian art are those in medieval Cairo , but interesting above all are the life of the fields and the bazars , where people still live and ...
Page xix
... ancient Memphis . EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women ...
... ancient Memphis . EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women ...
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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