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 xiii
... Italy and Japan - my two favourite playgrounds heretofore ) never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests . The history of Egypt covers countless centuries ; the most ancient and ...
... Italy and Japan - my two favourite playgrounds heretofore ) never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests . The history of Egypt covers countless centuries ; the most ancient and ...
Page xxi
... Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It is drawn by Egyptian buffaloes . In Cleo- patra's day Egypt was one of the chief granaries of the Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in ...
... Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It is drawn by Egyptian buffaloes . In Cleo- patra's day Egypt was one of the chief granaries of the Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in ...
Page 16
... Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go to Germany . In the essays upon Turkey , they generally began by saying that they wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the late Sultan ) were so much ...
... Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go to Germany . In the essays upon Turkey , they generally began by saying that they wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the late Sultan ) were so much ...
Page 37
... Italian servants . Ramidge waited a year to get one . Sometimes the Egyptian suffragi can read and write . But this is exceptional , and it is not to be encouraged , because , if your servant can read , he reads all day . No Egyptian ...
... Italian servants . Ramidge waited a year to get one . Sometimes the Egyptian suffragi can read and write . But this is exceptional , and it is not to be encouraged , because , if your servant can read , he reads all day . No Egyptian ...
Page 79
... Italian artist , who had covered the ceiling with the most garish stencillings ; he had made a Moorish room , and had filled the whole palace with atrocious Frenchy- Oriental furniture , and he puffed himself out over it like a very ...
... Italian artist , who had covered the ceiling with the most garish stencillings ; he had made a Moorish room , and had filled the whole palace with atrocious Frenchy- Oriental furniture , and he puffed himself out over it like a very ...
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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