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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... Berberine has most faults. One of our greatest friends in Egypt, a bachelor, used to be amusing on the servant ... Berberine servants. When Ramidge woke the first morning, the cleaner of motorcars was standing by his bed watching the ...
... Berberine has most faults. One of our greatest friends in Egypt, a bachelor, used to be amusing on the servant ... Berberine servants. When Ramidge woke the first morning, the cleaner of motorcars was standing by his bed watching the ...
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... Berberine, and the other, though he was twice his size, was terrified of him. He took entire charge of Ramidge's valeting. When Ramidge came back from England, he could not find him; he must have been in prison, or he would have found ...
... Berberine, and the other, though he was twice his size, was terrified of him. He took entire charge of Ramidge's valeting. When Ramidge came back from England, he could not find him; he must have been in prison, or he would have found ...
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... Berberine, who cannot speak any European language. Flat life is greatly on the increase among Greeks and other lowerclass nations. They take a lodger for one or two rooms, and make him pay the whole rent, and live in the rest. Nearly ...
... Berberine, who cannot speak any European language. Flat life is greatly on the increase among Greeks and other lowerclass nations. They take a lodger for one or two rooms, and make him pay the whole rent, and live in the rest. Nearly ...
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... Berberine's idea as to the cause of his immunity. He is so vain that he really believes that it is because people are afraid that, if the Berberines were got together in one regiment, not a force in the world could stand against them ...
... Berberine's idea as to the cause of his immunity. He is so vain that he really believes that it is because people are afraid that, if the Berberines were got together in one regiment, not a force in the world could stand against them ...
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... Berberine, threatened to take Ramidge into court when he was going to beat him for not washing a meshrebiya screen ... Berberine servants are really very good cooks, but they steal your clothes. The Egyptian suffragi is original in one ...
... Berberine, threatened to take Ramidge into court when he was going to beat him for not washing a meshrebiya screen ... Berberine servants are really very good cooks, but they steal your clothes. The Egyptian suffragi is original in one ...
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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