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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... antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted tombs of the Caliphs on the edge of the Eastern Desert and the mosque - crowned citadel of Saladin . That is the white side of the shield ...
... antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted tombs of the Caliphs on the edge of the Eastern Desert and the mosque - crowned citadel of Saladin . That is the white side of the shield ...
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... antique mosques and palaces and baths and fountains and churches , may be divided into three parts- Babylon , El - Katai , and El - Kahira ; in other words , the Roman citadel behind old Cairo , the quarter of which the Tulun Mosque is ...
... antique mosques and palaces and baths and fountains and churches , may be divided into three parts- Babylon , El - Katai , and El - Kahira ; in other words , the Roman citadel behind old Cairo , the quarter of which the Tulun Mosque is ...
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... antique baldachin , a rare feature in Coptic churches , and behind the screens on the right is another antique church , less richly decorated , formed out of a room in the Roman bastion . I have seen seven antique Coptic churches in and ...
... antique baldachin , a rare feature in Coptic churches , and behind the screens on the right is another antique church , less richly decorated , formed out of a room in the Roman bastion . I have seen seven antique Coptic churches in and ...
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... antique columns , restored in the fifteenth century , give its liwán a noble effect . There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a ...
... antique columns , restored in the fifteenth century , give its liwán a noble effect . There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a ...
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... antique glories of its sanctuary . In the Haret - es - Merdani is the old mansion whose court- yard artists love to paint . For one side of it is rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs - its Mak'ad or open hall , has three ...
... antique glories of its sanctuary . In the Haret - es - Merdani is the old mansion whose court- yard artists love to paint . For one side of it is rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs - its Mak'ad or open hall , has three ...
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