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 i
... FIVE INTIMATE PICTURES OF COUNTRY LIFE IN UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR AND A MAP PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON : HURST & BLACKETT , LIMITED THE PROPHET AT THE FEAST OF BAIRAM . Frontispiece QUEER. 1911.
... FIVE INTIMATE PICTURES OF COUNTRY LIFE IN UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR AND A MAP PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON : HURST & BLACKETT , LIMITED THE PROPHET AT THE FEAST OF BAIRAM . Frontispiece QUEER. 1911.
Page iii
... WITH SIXTY - FIVe intimate pictures of country life in UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THe author AND A MAP PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON HURST & BLACKETT , LIMITED PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN . DT 55 5639 DEDICATED ňî 1911.
... WITH SIXTY - FIVe intimate pictures of country life in UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THe author AND A MAP PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON HURST & BLACKETT , LIMITED PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN . DT 55 5639 DEDICATED ňî 1911.
Page ix
... yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals Preface ix.
... yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals Preface ix.
Page 6
... pictures . This little old church has wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli at Rome if it ...
... pictures . This little old church has wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli at Rome if it ...
Page 15
... picture of Awnys in the making , for Berkeley , a friend of mine , who was a schoolmaster in Egypt , and wished to know the Egyptian boy's mind , set his class the following subjects for essays : I. Write an account of life in the ...
... picture of Awnys in the making , for Berkeley , a friend of mine , who was a schoolmaster in Egypt , and wished to know the Egyptian boy's mind , set his class the following subjects for essays : I. Write an account of life in 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