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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... Desert and the mosquecrowned citadel of Saladin. That is the white side of the shield. If the Egyptian had as much sense as the Greek—out of Greece—there would be no other. The Greek knows when he is well off. He is as willing to live ...
... Desert and the mosquecrowned citadel of Saladin. That is the white side of the shield. If the Egyptian had as much sense as the Greek—out of Greece—there would be no other. The Greek knows when he is well off. He is as willing to live ...
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... desert; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum; the life in the dead cities of the Delta, like Rosetta and ...
... desert; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which go up from Cairo to Assuan and the Sudan; the life in unbeaten tracks like the Fayum; the life in the dead cities of the Delta, like Rosetta and ...
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... DESERT TO THE GREAT OASIS THE MARVELS OF THE GREAT OASIS—HERODOTUS'S “ISLAND OF THE BLEST” CLEOPATRA'S TEMPLE OF DENDERAH LUXOR, THE CITY OF THE LOTUSEATER THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES HUNDREDPYLONED THEBES THREE GREAT TEMPLES ...
... DESERT TO THE GREAT OASIS THE MARVELS OF THE GREAT OASIS—HERODOTUS'S “ISLAND OF THE BLEST” CLEOPATRA'S TEMPLE OF DENDERAH LUXOR, THE CITY OF THE LOTUSEATER THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES HUNDREDPYLONED THEBES THREE GREAT TEMPLES ...
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... Desert Arabs in charge. CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum. THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET Which all Cook's tourists are taken to see. In front are bead and haberdashery stalls. THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE ...
... Desert Arabs in charge. CHILD CRYING AT THE KODAK In the desert on the borders of the Fayum. THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET Which all Cook's tourists are taken to see. In front are bead and haberdashery stalls. THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE ...
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... DESERT Children collected round the village fountain. UNDER PROTEST To mount a camel a lady needs the assistance of at least three people. The camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT ...
... DESERT Children collected round the village fountain. UNDER PROTEST To mount a camel a lady needs the assistance of at least three people. The camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT ...
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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