Queer Things About EgyptRead Books Ltd, 2013 M05 31 - 512 pages Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen was an English author. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and went to Australia (1879), where he became the first professor of history in the University of Sydney. Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s. Sladen takes up his pen to describe the humours of Egyptian society, Egyptian servants, and, above all, the humours and delights of travel in Upper Egypt. He gives glimpses of all the everyday life of the Englishman in Egypt, from doing business (with Egyptians) to donkey-riding. He also devotes several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court. The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife, given to him for publication. Not less interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high-life, Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian morality will be the advice on curio-buying in Egypt when you have not much money to spend. The book is not entirely taken up with anecdotes and absurdities. Like Queer Things about Japan and Queer Things about Persia, it devotes half its pages to the monuments, the romance, the mystery, and the poetry of the Orient. The fascination of Egypt is extraordinary; its monuments are matchless. |
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... AGENORIA'S SERVANTS DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS THE PASHA THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS X. 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 EGYPTIAN'S ...
... AGENORIA'S SERVANTS DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS THE PASHA THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS X. 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 EGYPTIAN'S ...
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... Agenoria had to banish her dogs to the roof, which was the only place the ticks did not like. If she walked twenty yards from her house with any of her dogs they got covered with ticks again. No dog can live at the Delta Barrage, ticks ...
... Agenoria had to banish her dogs to the roof, which was the only place the ticks did not like. If she walked twenty yards from her house with any of her dogs they got covered with ticks again. No dog can live at the Delta Barrage, ticks ...
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... Agenoria found her solemn Nubian butlerman beating his little boy, a tiny dot of seven years old, whom he had shut up in a stable naked, because he would not stay at some reforming kind of institution, to which he had been sent. The ...
... Agenoria found her solemn Nubian butlerman beating his little boy, a tiny dot of seven years old, whom he had shut up in a stable naked, because he would not stay at some reforming kind of institution, to which he had been sent. The ...
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... Agenoria and her husband had arranged to go to England and had refused to take him with them, they found him lying on a heap of sand outside the house, naked. “What are you doing, Ibrahim?” they asked, and he answered: “I shall have to ...
... Agenoria and her husband had arranged to go to England and had refused to take him with them, they found him lying on a heap of sand outside the house, naked. “What are you doing, Ibrahim?” they asked, and he answered: “I shall have to ...
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... Agenoria, imploring her to give work to some relation of his whom she had never seen. “You ask Mr. R.,” he said, “your marriad, English husband always do what his wife tell him.” While she was sitting at her window one day in Cairo, she ...
... Agenoria, imploring her to give work to some relation of his whom she had never seen. “You ask Mr. R.,” he said, “your marriad, English husband always do what his wife tell him.” While she was sitting at her window one day in Cairo, she ...
Contents
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 | |
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