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
... tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it was to be put . The Carthaginians and Etruscans frankly borrowed their civilisation from the Egyptians - many of their tombs might ...
... tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it was to be put . The Carthaginians and Etruscans frankly borrowed their civilisation from the Egyptians - many of their tombs might ...
Page x
... tombs of Thebes . In the Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in ...
... tombs of Thebes . In the Arab city at Cairo you seem to be walking in Bagdad or Granada and back in the Middle Ages . There is such a bewildering succession of antique mosques , tombs , palaces , fountains , and baths , culminating in ...
Page xiv
... tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so ...
... tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so ...
Page xvii
... TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV ...
... TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV ...
Page xxi
... tomb , and houses hidden behind the stacks of palm leaves , with which the famous basket - weaving industry of Damietta is carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no ...
... tomb , and houses hidden behind the stacks of palm leaves , with which the famous basket - weaving industry of Damietta is carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no ...
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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