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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... the Asia Minor ports . The Egyptian would have prefered to live under the rule of Abdul Hamid to living under the rule of Lord Cromer , apart from religious considerations , because he would X Preface СКАР CHIPS FROM THE COURT.
... the Asia Minor ports . The Egyptian would have prefered to live under the rule of Abdul Hamid to living under the rule of Lord Cromer , apart from religious considerations , because he would X Preface СКАР CHIPS FROM THE COURT.
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... Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high - life , Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian ...
... Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high - life , Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian ...
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... Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court . DOUGLAS SLADEN ...
... Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court . DOUGLAS SLADEN ...
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... . THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX . THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS 61 65 78 82 СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE XV.
... . THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX . THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS 61 65 78 82 СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE XV.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE man abouT TOWN IN EGYPT . XII . THE HUMOURS OF THE COUNTRY EGYPTIAN XIII . THE GYPS AT HOME . XIV . ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS XV . THE EGYPTIAN'S COUNTRY ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE man abouT TOWN IN EGYPT . XII . THE HUMOURS OF THE COUNTRY EGYPTIAN XIII . THE GYPS AT HOME . XIV . ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS XV . THE EGYPTIAN'S COUNTRY ...
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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