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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... mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted tombs of the Caliphs on the edge of the Eastern Desert and the mosque - crowned citadel of Saladin . That is the white side of the shield . If ...
... mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in the domed and minareted tombs of the Caliphs on the edge of the Eastern Desert and the mosque - crowned citadel of Saladin . That is the white side of the shield . If ...
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... MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and vegetables to keep them from the goats , and his children , to keep ...
... MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and vegetables to keep them from the goats , and his children , to keep ...
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... mosque , a saint's tomb , and houses hidden behind the stacks of palm leaves , with which the famous basket - weaving industry of Damietta is carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and ...
... mosque , a saint's tomb , and houses hidden behind the stacks of palm leaves , with which the famous basket - weaving industry of Damietta is carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and ...
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... mosque - college , which he attached to the venerable Mosque of Imam Shafyi , now surrounded by the tombs of the Mamelukes , one of the three mosques in Cairo which Christians are not allowed to visit , and the only one of the three ...
... mosque - college , which he attached to the venerable Mosque of Imam Shafyi , now surrounded by the tombs of the Mamelukes , one of the three mosques in Cairo which Christians are not allowed to visit , and the only one of the three ...
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... mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir ...
... mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir ...
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