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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... garden hall at the end, into the throneroom of Sultan Beybars, who died six hundred years ago. The carved wood throne, from which he administered justice, stands where it stood. Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem, like a ...
... garden hall at the end, into the throneroom of Sultan Beybars, who died six hundred years ago. The carved wood throne, from which he administered justice, stands where it stood. Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem, like a ...
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... gardens, splendid buildings, grand houses, pure air, high mountains and hills, and it is welldrained country. All good things that anyone wish are found there. The people there are goodbred and welleducated. All things there are cheap ...
... gardens, splendid buildings, grand houses, pure air, high mountains and hills, and it is welldrained country. All good things that anyone wish are found there. The people there are goodbred and welleducated. All things there are cheap ...
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... Gardens. Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing; he gratefully accepted the latter, and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired, and sent him to Alexandria. Three days later he turned ...
... Gardens. Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing; he gratefully accepted the latter, and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired, and sent him to Alexandria. Three days later he turned ...
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... gardener, and a coachman. My chauffeur comes from the garage.” “Do your servants give you much trouble?” I asked. “Trouble?” she answered. “Not so much as they give other people. I go out and scream at them twice a week, and call them ...
... gardener, and a coachman. My chauffeur comes from the garage.” “Do your servants give you much trouble?” I asked. “Trouble?” she answered. “Not so much as they give other people. I go out and scream at them twice a week, and call them ...
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... garden with the hen running herself breathless to keep up with him. Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo. The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide. One ...
... garden with the hen running herself breathless to keep up with him. Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo. The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide. 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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