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
... Alexandria to Omdurman and Omdebrekat . To the land it had rescued the Pax Britannica gave the priceless gifts of security of person and property , and unfailing and equitably distributed water , till the whole land smiled as it had ...
... Alexandria to Omdurman and Omdebrekat . To the land it had rescued the Pax Britannica gave the priceless gifts of security of person and property , and unfailing and equitably distributed water , till the whole land smiled as it had ...
Page xvi
... Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 210 XXII . ROSETTA • XXIII . ABÛKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE XXIV ...
... Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS 184 XXI . DAMIETTA 194 210 XXII . ROSETTA • XXIII . ABÛKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE XXIV ...
Page xvi
... Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE A VISIT TO THE FAYUM, THE LAND OF A THOUSAND ...
... Alexandria to Assuan LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA . . . SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA . . . . THE EGYPTIAN STATE RAILWAYS . . . DAMIETTA . ROSETTA ABIIKIR AND THE BATTLE OF THE NILE A VISIT TO THE FAYUM, THE LAND OF A THOUSAND ...
Page xxi
... ALEXANDRIA 158 WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt ...
... ALEXANDRIA 158 WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt ...
Page 32
... Alexandria . Three days later he turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning . The basket of dates was a peace - offering . For the three months after that , till ...
... Alexandria . Three days later he turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning . The basket of dates was a peace - offering . For the three months after that , till ...
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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