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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page
... natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt. If you want to see Egypt pure and simple, naked and unashamed, you must go down into the Delta, or up into Upper Egypt. I give a general sketch of ...
... natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt. If you want to see Egypt pure and simple, naked and unashamed, you must go down into the Delta, or up into Upper Egypt. I give a general sketch of ...
Page
... native from Kafr Awana, which is half a mile from Nekla, Behera, was fast asleep in the middle of the day under the shade of a tree in the field, some days ago, a serpent suddenly entered his mouth. The fellah got up at once, but, alas ...
... native from Kafr Awana, which is half a mile from Nekla, Behera, was fast asleep in the middle of the day under the shade of a tree in the field, some days ago, a serpent suddenly entered his mouth. The fellah got up at once, but, alas ...
Page
... natives and was married with a Pasha's daughter. “MOHAMMED FERID.” “When a boy is born his mother take care and breed him until the 7th of his age. After this his father take care of him by sending him schools if he was rich in order to ...
... natives and was married with a Pasha's daughter. “MOHAMMED FERID.” “When a boy is born his mother take care and breed him until the 7th of his age. After this his father take care of him by sending him schools if he was rich in order to ...
Page
... native land; you would not spend much money. “MOHAMMED HOSSEIN.” “The country that I live in outside Egypt is 'Switzerland.' This country has healthy climate, a shine and blue sky, a good and fertile land, in spite of that it is a ...
... native land; you would not spend much money. “MOHAMMED HOSSEIN.” “The country that I live in outside Egypt is 'Switzerland.' This country has healthy climate, a shine and blue sky, a good and fertile land, in spite of that it is a ...
Page
... natives agree in regarding the English as being absolutely without religion of any kind. When a burglar breaks into your house your suffragi comes to call you. He can be really courageous if he has you with him to help; otherwise he ...
... natives agree in regarding the English as being absolutely without religion of any kind. When a burglar breaks into your house your suffragi comes to call you. He can be really courageous if he has you with him to help; otherwise he ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient Egypt antiquities Antony Arab asked Assuan Assyut bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine boats built Cæsar Cairo called camels canal carriage charming Cleopatra colour columns cook Cook's Coptic Cromwell Rhodes dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey-boys donkeys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Esna excavated Fayum feet garden Greek half hall hundred Isis Karnak Khedive King ladies lake Lake Moeris land live look Luxor mediæval Medinet-Habu minarets Mohammed monuments mosque mummy native never night Nile Nilometer Nubian oasis Osiris painted palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs Philæ photograph piastres picturesque Ptolemies pylon Pyramids railway Rameses Rameses III Ramidge rich ride river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand sculptures servants Seti side steamer suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists train Upper Egypt village walls wonderful