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 ix
... rich in Egyptian jewels and implements . Through them , as well as direct , the Greeks and Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what character are the remains left by the Pharaohs in the fifty centuries during which they were laying ...
... rich in Egyptian jewels and implements . Through them , as well as direct , the Greeks and Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what character are the remains left by the Pharaohs in the fifty centuries during which they were laying ...
Page xi
... rich and poor , arises solely from land . One man is lucky enough to own land which the foreigners require for building . He gets a bountiful price , and puts it away in sovereigns . He does not often invest it . Many Arabs still ...
... rich and poor , arises solely from land . One man is lucky enough to own land which the foreigners require for building . He gets a bountiful price , and puts it away in sovereigns . He does not often invest it . Many Arabs still ...
Page xiii
... Rich . " Cairo is an Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt . If you want to see Egypt pure and simple , naked ...
... Rich . " Cairo is an Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt . If you want to see Egypt pure and simple , naked ...
Page 6
... rich antique baldachin , a rare feature in Coptic churches , and behind the screens on the right is another antique church , less richly decorated , formed out of a room in the Roman bastion . I have seen seven antique Coptic churches ...
... rich antique baldachin , a rare feature in Coptic churches , and behind the screens on the right is another antique church , less richly decorated , formed out of a room in the Roman bastion . I have seen seven antique Coptic churches ...
Page 7
... rich plaster tracery of the windows of the clerestory at the back of the sanctuary . The hardest stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one of the ...
... rich plaster tracery of the windows of the clerestory at the back of the sanctuary . The hardest stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one 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