Queer Things About EgyptJazzybee Verlag, 2019 - 512 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. It 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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... -boys CHAPTER XVII. On the Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt if you have not much to Spend PART II. THE LIFE AND CITIES OF THE NILE: FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ASSUAN CHAPTER XVIII. Landing at Alexandria CHAPTER XIX. Some Reflections on.
... -boys CHAPTER XVII. On the Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt if you have not much to Spend PART II. THE LIFE AND CITIES OF THE NILE: FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ASSUAN CHAPTER XVIII. Landing at Alexandria CHAPTER XIX. Some Reflections on.
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... Assuan, the City of the Idle Wealthy CHAPTER XXXIV. The Great Dam of Assuan CHAPTER XXXV. Elephantine CHAPTER XXXVI. Philæ the Melted Pearl CHAPTER XXXVII. The Humours and the Beauties of the Nile as seen from Cook's Steamers CHAPTER ...
... Assuan, the City of the Idle Wealthy CHAPTER XXXIV. The Great Dam of Assuan CHAPTER XXXV. Elephantine CHAPTER XXXVI. Philæ the Melted Pearl CHAPTER XXXVII. The Humours and the Beauties of the Nile as seen from Cook's Steamers CHAPTER ...
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... 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. Yet ...
... 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. Yet ...
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... Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to 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.
... Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to 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.
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... Assuan, “the City of the Idle Rich.” Cairo is an Arab capital, and Cairo needs a book to itself. There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt. If you want to see Egypt ...
... Assuan, “the City of the Idle Rich.” Cairo is an Arab capital, and Cairo needs a book to itself. There are thousands of natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt. If you want to see Egypt ...
Contents
Queer Things About Cairo Society | |
The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper | |
More about Agenorias Servants | |
The Egyptian State Railways | |
Damietta | |
Rosetta | |
Abûkir and the Battle of the Nile | |
A Visit to the Fayum the Land of a Thousand Days | |
Assyut and Abydos | |
Crossing the Libyan Desert to the Great | |
Oasis CHAPTER XXVII The Marvels of the Great Oasis | |
Doing Business with Egyptians | |
The Pasha | |
The Naughty Princess | |
Chips from the Court | |
The Man About Town in Egypt | |
The Humours of the Country Egyptian | |
The Gyps at Home | |
On the Humours of Egyptian Hotels | |
The Egyptians Idea of Serving His Country | |
Of the Humours of Egyptian Donkeyboys | |
On the Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt if you have not much to Spend | |
FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ASSUAN | |
Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra | |
Cleopatras Temple of Denderah | |
Luxor the City of the Lotuseater | |
The Tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes | |
Hundredpyloned Thebes | |
Three Great Temples Esna Edfu and Komombo | |
Assuan the City of the Idle Wealthy | |
The Great Dam of Assuan | |
Elephantine | |
Philæ the Melted Pearl | |
The Humours and the Beauties of the Nile as seen from Cooks Steamers | |
Life at Luxor | |
The Ruins of Karnak | |
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