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 xii
... interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high - life , Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian morality will be the advice on curio - buying in Egypt when you have not much money to spend , which concludes Part I. But the book ...
... interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high - life , Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian morality will be the advice on curio - buying in Egypt when you have not much money to spend , which concludes Part I. But the book ...
Page xiii
... 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 . The history of ...
... 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 . The history of ...
Page xvi
... INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT 133 143 PART II On the Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 ...
... INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT 133 143 PART II On the Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 ...
Page xvi
... INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT . PART H On the Nile—Fz-om Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE ...
... INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT . PART H On the Nile—Fz-om Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE ...
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... interesting feature is the well , going back to the times of the Pharaohs , though it may have been called Joseph's well after Saladin himself , whose name was Youssuf . This is 300 ft . deep , and may still be descended to half its ...
... interesting feature is the well , going back to the times of the Pharaohs , though it may have been called Joseph's well after Saladin himself , whose name was Youssuf . This is 300 ft . deep , and may still be descended to half its ...
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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