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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... walls, and have yielded furniture (put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt. For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals ...
... walls, and have yielded furniture (put into them for the use of the doubles of the dead) which helps us to picture almost every detail in the domestic life of ancient Egypt. For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals ...
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... wall of the Citadel on one side, and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall. This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes—the turbulent barons in armour, each with his commando of ...
... wall of the Citadel on one side, and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall. This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes—the turbulent barons in armour, each with his commando of ...
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... walls. But one survived, and he did not take the famous Mameluke leap from the Citadel walls, though he may have galloped off to Syria when he found himself shut outside, while his kinsmen were being massacred within. It was Saladin who ...
... walls. But one survived, and he did not take the famous Mameluke leap from the Citadel walls, though he may have galloped off to Syria when he found himself shut outside, while his kinsmen were being massacred within. It was Saladin who ...
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... walls and one great Roman gate, as fine as those of Rome. Inside it is a beehive of Copts. The Coptic Babylon is almost an underground city. The Copts built right over their streets as if they were bees, though now they are beginning to ...
... walls and one great Roman gate, as fine as those of Rome. Inside it is a beehive of Copts. The Coptic Babylon is almost an underground city. The Copts built right over their streets as if they were bees, though now they are beginning to ...
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... wall near the entrance is a white marble Coptic stoup. You enter an octagonal hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard, with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines. At ...
... wall near the entrance is a white marble Coptic stoup. You enter an octagonal hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard, with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines. At ...
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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