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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... one house that was not built of mud. From their houses we learn little except the antiquity of the vaulted ceiling. All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs, when they had left off building mountains of stone, and taken.
... one house that was not built of mud. From their houses we learn little except the antiquity of the vaulted ceiling. All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs, when they had left off building mountains of stone, and taken.
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... built in the seventeenth century, and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey, built in the eighteenth. Its appearance from below is altogether mediæval, though the.
... built in the seventeenth century, and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey, built in the eighteenth. Its appearance from below is altogether mediæval, though the.
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... built altogether in the nineteenth. The Mosque of Mehemet Ali, whose beauties are all external, and depend on distance for enchantment, is the crowning grace of Cairo. No matter whether you are on your housetop courting the breeze at ...
... built altogether in the nineteenth. The Mosque of Mehemet Ali, whose beauties are all external, and depend on distance for enchantment, is the crowning grace of Cairo. No matter whether you are on your housetop courting the breeze at ...
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... built before its citadel is only apparent, for the founder of ElKahira already possessed two citadels, the Babylon of Old Cairo on the Nile and the Citadel of the Air, the palace founded by the great Sultan Ibn Tulun, beside his mosque ...
... built before its citadel is only apparent, for the founder of ElKahira already possessed two citadels, the Babylon of Old Cairo on the Nile and the Citadel of the Air, the palace founded by the great Sultan Ibn Tulun, beside his mosque ...
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... built on to a Roman bastion, is among the most beautiful churches in the world; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo, for the richness and perfect harmony of its decorations. The ...
... built on to a Roman bastion, is among the most beautiful churches in the world; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo, for the richness and perfect harmony of its decorations. The ...
Contents
ON THE HUMOURS OF THE SUFFRAGI THE EGYPTIAN SERVANT | |
HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO | |
QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY | |
THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER | |
MORE ABOUT AGENORIAS SERVANTS | |
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 | |
DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS | |
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