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
... stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums - some of the dimensions of cathedrals - out of the living rock . It would be worth while going to Egypt , were it only to see the tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes , and of their viziers at Memphis ...
... stone , and taken to hewing mausoleums - some of the dimensions of cathedrals - out of the living rock . It would be worth while going to Egypt , were it only to see the tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes , and of their viziers at Memphis ...
Page xix
... stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR ...
... stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR ...
Page 7
... stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one of the largest in the world , and every roof and every pier is standing in its place , though it was abandoned ...
... stone of Gothic church - builders would have stood no longer than this marvellous stucco . The mosque is of vast extent , one of the largest in the world , and every roof and every pier is standing in its place , though it was abandoned ...
Page 10
... stones , laces , and antiquities arrange their wares in foreign ways for the foreigners to buy . You are soon through this ... stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every ...
... stones , laces , and antiquities arrange their wares in foreign ways for the foreigners to buy . You are soon through this ... stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every ...
Page 13
... stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate , gums or linings - they were so thickly coated with crawling flies . It was ...
... stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate , gums or linings - they were so thickly coated with crawling flies . It was ...
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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