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
... building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums - some of the dimensions of cathedrals - out of the living rock . It would be worth while going to Egypt , were it only to see the tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes , and of ...
... building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums - some of the dimensions of cathedrals - out of the living rock . It would be worth while going to Egypt , were it only to see the tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes , and of ...
Page xi
... building . He gets a bountiful price , and puts it away in sovereigns . He does not often invest it . Many Arabs still consider that invest- ment is a breach of the prophet's injunctions about usury , though they make an exception for ...
... building . He gets a bountiful price , and puts it away in sovereigns . He does not often invest it . Many Arabs still consider that invest- ment is a breach of the prophet's injunctions about usury , though they make an exception for ...
Page xix
... building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT ...
... building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT ...
Page xxi
... buildings in good condition as Rosetta . ALEXANDRIA Old houses of the Rosetta type - some of the few domestic buildings left of the ancient village of 5,000 inhabitants out of which Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 ...
... buildings in good condition as Rosetta . ALEXANDRIA Old houses of the Rosetta type - some of the few domestic buildings left of the ancient village of 5,000 inhabitants out of which Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 ...
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... buildings of Cairo into an introduction . For it is written in a serious vein , while the rest of the book , especially the dozen chapters about the irresistible drolleries of education , Society , and housekeeping in Egypt , which ...
... buildings of Cairo into an introduction . For it is written in a serious vein , while the rest of the book , especially the dozen chapters about the irresistible drolleries of education , Society , and housekeeping in Egypt , which ...
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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