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
... walls , and have yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no ...
... walls , and have yielded furniture ( put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead ) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt . For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no ...
Page x
... walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more impressive moments in your life than when you enter for the first time a perfect temple of ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior ...
... walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more impressive moments in your life than when you enter for the first time a perfect temple of ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior ...
Page xx
... wall . 55 A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP 68 Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the ...
... wall . 55 A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP 68 Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the ...
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... wall of the Citadel on one side , and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall . This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes - the turbulent barons in armour , each with his commando ...
... wall of the Citadel on one side , and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall . This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes - the turbulent barons in armour , each with his commando ...
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... walls . But one survived , and he did not take the famous Mameluke leap from the Citadel walls , though he may have galloped off to Syria when he found himself shut outside , while his kins- men were being massacred within . 7 It was ...
... walls . But one survived , and he did not take the famous Mameluke leap from the Citadel walls , though he may have galloped off to Syria when he found himself shut outside , while his kins- men were being massacred within . 7 It was ...
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