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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... town Egyptian hopelessly corrupt . If he could be kept from evil communications he would become a good citizen like the country Egyptian , for he likes peace and hates responsibility . Vanity and venality are his besetting sins , and ...
... town Egyptian hopelessly corrupt . If he could be kept from evil communications he would become a good citizen like the country Egyptian , for he likes peace and hates responsibility . Vanity and venality are his besetting sins , and ...
Page xiv
... town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the ...
... town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the ...
Page xvi
... TOWN IN EGYPT . XII . THE HUMOURS OF THE COUNTRY EGYPTIAN XIII . THE GYPS AT HOME . XIV . ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS XV . THE EGYPTIAN'S COUNTRY • PAGE 87 94 100 107 · 113 IDEA OF SERVING HIS 127 XVI . OF THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN ...
... TOWN IN EGYPT . XII . THE HUMOURS OF THE COUNTRY EGYPTIAN XIII . THE GYPS AT HOME . XIV . ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS XV . THE EGYPTIAN'S COUNTRY • PAGE 87 94 100 107 · 113 IDEA OF SERVING HIS 127 XVI . OF THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN ...
Page xxiii
... TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The 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 ...
... TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The 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 ...
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... . Japan is made up of a number of volcanic islands , of which the chief are Yezzo , Nippon , Likuku and Kiusko . Among its chief ports and towns are Tokio , the Capital , Osaka , Nagasaki , Kobe English as She is Wrote in Egypt 25.
... . Japan is made up of a number of volcanic islands , of which the chief are Yezzo , Nippon , Likuku and Kiusko . Among its chief ports and towns are Tokio , the Capital , Osaka , Nagasaki , Kobe English as She is Wrote in Egypt 25.
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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