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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... Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general sketch of the rural life , which you will see , in my chapters on the Egyptian State rail- ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . Preface xiii THE GYPS AT HOME.
... Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general sketch of the rural life , which you will see , in my chapters on the Egyptian State rail- ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . Preface xiii THE GYPS AT HOME.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
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... OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
... OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
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... Cook's tourists are taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom ...
... Cook's tourists are taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom ...
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... Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH OF ASSUAN • · " There was an old woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ASSUAN · On the road to ...
... Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH OF ASSUAN • · " There was an old woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ASSUAN · On the road to ...
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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