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 x
... half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more impressive ...
... half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more impressive ...
Page xii
... half its pages to the monu- ments , the romance , the mystery , and the poetry of the Orient . The fascination of Egypt is extraordinary ; its monuments are matchless . My pen lingers lovingly round the glories of its scenery and art ...
... half its pages to the monu- ments , the romance , the mystery , and the poetry of the Orient . The fascination of Egypt is extraordinary ; its monuments are matchless . My pen lingers lovingly round the glories of its scenery and art ...
Page xxiii
... half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to ...
... half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to ...
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... half its depth by the path which winds round it , like that which used to ascend the fallen campanile of Venice . It was the well which made Saladin choose this site , for there is a higher rock behind , which even the poor artillery of ...
... half its depth by the path which winds round it , like that which used to ascend the fallen campanile of Venice . It was the well which made Saladin choose this site , for there is a higher rock behind , which even the poor artillery of ...
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... half a mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This story under different names is also told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the ...
... half a mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This story under different names is also told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the ...
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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