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 viii
... Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics ; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still to be seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day ...
... Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics ; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still to be seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day ...
Page xiii
... Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where you are within a short walk of the ...
... Assuan and the Sudan ; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum ; the life in the dead cities of the Delta , like Rosetta and Damietta ; the lotus life and the exquisite beauty of Luxor , where you are within a short walk of the ...
Page xvi
... 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 . A VISIT TO THE ...
... 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 . A VISIT TO THE ...
Page xvii
... ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI . PHILE THE MELTED PEARL . 367 372 • 379 XXXVII . THE HUMOURS AND THE BEAUTIES OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE ...
... ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI . PHILE THE MELTED PEARL . 367 372 • 379 XXXVII . THE HUMOURS AND THE BEAUTIES OF THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE ...
Page xvi
... 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 'DAYS PLGI I00 ...
... 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 'DAYS PLGI I00 ...
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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