Queer Things About EgyptThis 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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The Citadel of Cairo may be taken as an example of the surviving mediæval spirit
of the Arab builder almost as much as the Mosque of El-Bordeini, built in the
seventeenth century, and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey, built in the eighteenth.
The Citadel of Cairo may be taken as an example of the surviving mediæval spirit
of the Arab builder almost as much as the Mosque of El-Bordeini, built in the
seventeenth century, and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey, built in the eighteenth.
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Kait Bey, the chief builder of mediæval Cairo, four hundred years ago had one
imitated on a mosque pulpit. Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds.
These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood, whose polished surface is
inlaid ...
Kait Bey, the chief builder of mediæval Cairo, four hundred years ago had one
imitated on a mosque pulpit. Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds.
These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood, whose polished surface is
inlaid ...
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There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun, the second part of the
mediæval city, than by walking over the mounds of Fustat, a mountainous desert
in miniature, keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin, which might, but for
its ...
There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun, the second part of the
mediæval city, than by walking over the mounds of Fustat, a mountainous desert
in miniature, keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin, which might, but for
its ...
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All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you past a
succession of little mosques with domes which are dreams of slender grace, and
a few old mansions, into the busy Bazar of the Tentmakers, who embroider the ...
All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you past a
succession of little mosques with domes which are dreams of slender grace, and
a few old mansions, into the busy Bazar of the Tentmakers, who embroider the ...
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And, within, there is every antique grace, from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn
and the tomb of En-Nasr to the resurrection of mediæval art, from its ashes in
Kalaûn's mosque, and the imperishable splendour of the fifteenth century. There
are ...
And, within, there is every antique grace, from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn
and the tomb of En-Nasr to the resurrection of mediæval art, from its ashes in
Kalaûn's mosque, and the imperishable splendour of the fifteenth century. There
are ...
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Contents
How Foreigners Live in Cairo | |
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 | |
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Queer Things About Egypt |
| Author | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen |
| Publisher | Jazzybee Verlag, 2019 |
| ISBN | 3849652408, 9783849652401 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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