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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... ( Chapter XV ) . If the English could run Egypt on the same principles as the French run Tunis all would be well ... chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high ...
... ( Chapter XV ) . If the English could run Egypt on the same principles as the French run Tunis all would be well ... chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high ...
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... Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general sketch of the rural life , which you will see , in my chapters on the Egyptian State rail- ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . Preface xiii THE GYPS AT HOME.
... Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general sketch of the rural life , which you will see , in my chapters on the Egyptian State rail- ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . Preface xiii THE GYPS AT HOME.
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... chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live ...
... chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only reside at the Karnak end of the town , away from the vulgarities and toutings of the front , you live ...
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... chapters about the irresistible drolleries of education , Society , and housekeeping in Egypt , which follow the Intro- duction , present queer things about Egypt at every turn . In the Ismailia quarter , where the Savoy Hotel lies ...
... chapters about the irresistible drolleries of education , Society , and housekeeping in Egypt , which follow the Intro- duction , present queer things about Egypt at every turn . In the Ismailia quarter , where the Savoy Hotel lies ...
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... splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages II.
... splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I English Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages II.
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