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
... beautiful and interesting places in the world , and ( not even excepting Italy and Japan - my two favourite playgrounds heretofore ) never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests ...
... beautiful and interesting places in the world , and ( not even excepting Italy and Japan - my two favourite playgrounds heretofore ) never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests ...
Page xxi
... beautiful white Arab . Behind is the great pylon of Karnak . AN ARAB MARKET IN A PALM GROVE Bedâwin women in the foreground . • 142 THE RETURN FROM LUXOR MARKET . 143 Showing how strictly Egyptian women envelop themselves in public ...
... beautiful white Arab . Behind is the great pylon of Karnak . AN ARAB MARKET IN A PALM GROVE Bedâwin women in the foreground . • 142 THE RETURN FROM LUXOR MARKET . 143 Showing how strictly Egyptian women envelop themselves in public ...
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... beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well , going back to ...
... beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well , going back to ...
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... beautiful churches in the world ; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo , for the richness and perfect harmony of its decora- tions . The original entrance , through an underground ...
... beautiful churches in the world ; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo , for the richness and perfect harmony of its decora- tions . The original entrance , through an underground ...
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... beautiful screens which back on the entrance wall are in theory for the women , who are separated from the men in Coptic churches , for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women . One of the chapels contains a very beautiful ...
... beautiful screens which back on the entrance wall are in theory for the women , who are separated from the men in Coptic churches , for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women . One of the chapels contains a very beautiful ...
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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