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
... ruins of antiquity in the next most perfect climate . If he is satisfied with sunshine , without uniformity of tem- perature , in Cairo he can have the gayest of winter Society , combined with all sorts of sport and the contemplation of ...
... ruins of antiquity in the next most perfect climate . If he is satisfied with sunshine , without uniformity of tem- perature , in Cairo he can have the gayest of winter Society , combined with all sorts of sport and the contemplation of ...
Page x
... ruins of others , such as Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation ...
... ruins of others , such as Karnak's , a mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation ...
Page xiii
... ruins in Egypt , while you are staying in a most luxurious hotel ; and the gay winter season which society spends in Assuan , " the City of the Idle Rich . " Cairo is an Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are ...
... ruins in Egypt , while you are staying in a most luxurious hotel ; and the gay winter season which society spends in Assuan , " the City of the Idle Rich . " Cairo is an Arab capital , and Cairo needs a book to itself . There are ...
Page xvii
... NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
... NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
Page xxiii
... ruins of this group are a mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is ...
... ruins of this group are a mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is ...
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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