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
... 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 , which have ...
... 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 , which have ...
Page xii
... taken up with anecdotes and absurdities . Like Queer Things about Japan and Queer Things about Persia , it devotes half its pages to the monu- ments , the romance , the mystery , and the poetry of the Orient . The fascination of Egypt ...
... taken up with anecdotes and absurdities . Like Queer Things about Japan and Queer Things about Persia , it devotes half its pages to the monu- ments , the romance , the mystery , and the poetry of the Orient . The fascination of Egypt ...
Page xix
... taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying ...
... taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying ...
Page xx
... taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the corruption ...
... taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the corruption ...
Page xxiii
... Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract Hotel . These galleys are of an ancient Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The ruins of this group ...
... Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract Hotel . These galleys are of an ancient Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The ruins of this group ...
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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