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 xix
... 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 stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their ...
... 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 stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their ...
Page xx
... of the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . 123 HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in XX List of Illustrations COUNTRY PAGE.
... of the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . 123 HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in XX List of Illustrations COUNTRY PAGE.
Page xxi
... women in the foreground . • 142 THE RETURN FROM LUXOR MARKET . 143 Showing how strictly Egyptian women envelop themselves in public . POMPEY'S PILLAR AT ALEXANDRIA 158 WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND ...
... women in the foreground . • 142 THE RETURN FROM LUXOR MARKET . 143 Showing how strictly Egyptian women envelop themselves in public . POMPEY'S PILLAR AT ALEXANDRIA 158 WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND ...
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... woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ASSUAN · On the road to the Great Dam . 365 AN ASSUAN GALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE . • 380 Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract ...
... woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ASSUAN · On the road to the Great Dam . 365 AN ASSUAN GALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE . • 380 Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract ...
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... women , who are separated from the men in Coptic churches , for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women . One of the chapels contains a very beautiful Byzantine Madonna painted before the Byzantines had lost the ...
... women , who are separated from the men in Coptic churches , for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women . One of the chapels contains a very beautiful Byzantine Madonna painted before the Byzantines had lost the ...
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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