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 xiii
... 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 of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where you ...
... 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 of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where you ...
Page xiv
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
Page xvii
... THE 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.
... THE 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 106
... barrage of iron plates , like the side of a steamer , to dam the Nile , and the Cape to Cairo Railway was under his special protection . THE CHAPTER XIII The Gyps at Home HE Egyptians are 106 Queer Things About Egypt.
... barrage of iron plates , like the side of a steamer , to dam the Nile , and the Cape to Cairo Railway was under his special protection . THE CHAPTER XIII The Gyps at Home HE Egyptians are 106 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 122
... steamer which could not accommodate twenty English people for a voyage up the Nile could take two hundred Arabs , using the deck for beds and chairs . A luggage van makes a convenient railway carriage for them . Most English I always ...
... steamer which could not accommodate twenty English people for a voyage up the Nile could take two hundred Arabs , using the deck for beds and chairs . A luggage van makes a convenient railway carriage for them . Most English I always ...
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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