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 vii
... whole land smiled as it had never smiled since it lost the Pax Romana . Therefore Egypt has an interest for the Briton beyond other nations . But Egypt has also a double call for all the world - the call of an enchanting climate , and ...
... whole land smiled as it had never smiled since it lost the Pax Romana . Therefore Egypt has an interest for the Briton beyond other nations . But Egypt has also a double call for all the world - the call of an enchanting climate , and ...
Page ix
... whole life of ancient Egypt illuminated on their smooth limestone 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 ...
... whole life of ancient Egypt illuminated on their smooth limestone 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 ...
Page 3
... whole cortège was between the middle gate of the Citadel and the Bab - el - Azab , he caused both gates to be closed , and this was the signal for the escort to fall on them . They were so dazed that few offered any resistance , and ...
... whole cortège was between the middle gate of the Citadel and the Bab - el - Azab , he caused both gates to be closed , and this was the signal for the escort to fall on them . They were so dazed that few offered any resistance , and ...
Page 10
... splendour of the fifteenth century . There are the ruins of a Caliph's palace opposite and other 1 A fascinating place , where I have bargained for whole days . old mosques beyond - El - Hakim itself , indeed 10 Introduction.
... splendour of the fifteenth century . There are the ruins of a Caliph's palace opposite and other 1 A fascinating place , where I have bargained for whole days . old mosques beyond - El - Hakim itself , indeed 10 Introduction.
Page 22
... whole men must depart to other nations so as to gain knowledge and science , and to increase them lest it shall be lost . " OSMAN BAdran . " " I should like to be one of the inhabitans of the deserts . My life will be in a great ...
... whole men must depart to other nations so as to gain knowledge and science , and to increase them lest it shall be lost . " OSMAN BAdran . " " I should like to be one of the inhabitans of the deserts . My life will be in a great ...
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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