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 viii
... riding , and his sailing , in the most perfect winter climate in the world ; at the other he can wander through the most extensive ruins of antiquity in the next most perfect climate . If he is satisfied with sunshine , without ...
... riding , and his sailing , in the most perfect winter climate in the world ; at the other he can wander through the most extensive ruins of antiquity in the next most perfect climate . If he is satisfied with sunshine , without ...
Page xii
... riding . I also devote several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to some ...
... riding . I also devote several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to some ...
Page xiii
... riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities ...
... riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities ...
Page xix
... riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
... riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
Page xx
... riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE ...
... riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN 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