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
... seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day . Yet Assuan has no yellow fever , no malaria , not one of the pestilences of miasma to throw a shadow on the sport and gaiety at its Cataract Hotel ...
... seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day . Yet Assuan has no yellow fever , no malaria , not one of the pestilences of miasma to throw a shadow on the sport and gaiety at its Cataract Hotel ...
Page xiii
... seen by one who has spent his manhood in the pursuit of sunshine and beauty . I have visited a large proportion of the most beautiful and interesting places in the world , and ( not even excepting Italy and Japan - my two favourite ...
... seen by one who has spent his manhood in the pursuit of sunshine and beauty . I have visited a large proportion of the most beautiful and interesting places in the world , and ( not even excepting Italy and Japan - my two favourite ...
Page xiv
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. ways and the Nile as seen from Cook's steamers . But the monuments have chapters to themselves , grouped round the principal temples and tombs , and mostly in connection with Luxor . At Luxor , if you only ...
Page xvii
... THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
... THE NILEAS SEEN FROM COOK'S STEAMERS 387 XXXVIII . LIFE AT LUXOR 406 XXXIX . THE RUINS OF KARNAK XL . APPENDIX . PIERRE LOTI'S MISTAKES ABOUT 412 EGYPT · 419 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE Contents xvii.
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... seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well ...
... seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well ...
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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