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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 37
Page
... The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by EnNasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim, the gem of sixteenthcentury Cairo. The most interesting feature is the well, going back to.
... The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls of the royal mosque founded by EnNasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim, the gem of sixteenthcentury Cairo. The most interesting feature is the well, going back to.
Page
... hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard, with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines. At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a ...
... hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard, with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines. At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a ...
Page
... hall of an emir's palace, hardly longer than its height, with a richly painted roof, and windows with tiny bits of coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster. The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome was ...
... hall of an emir's palace, hardly longer than its height, with a richly painted roof, and windows with tiny bits of coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster. The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome was ...
Page
... hall, has three great arches rising to the roof, a recessed doorway, almost as lofty, at the head of the steps which lead up from the court, and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies: its windows are ...
... hall, has three great arches rising to the roof, a recessed doorway, almost as lofty, at the head of the steps which lead up from the court, and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies: its windows are ...
Page
... 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 mosque ...
... 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 mosque ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt antiquities Antony Arab asked Assuan Assyut bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine boats built Cæsar Cairo called camels canal carriage Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colour columns Cook Cook’s Coptic Cromwell Rhodes dahabeah Damietta Denderah DerelBahari desert donkeyboys donkeys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English excavated Fayum feet fellahin garden Greek gyassas hall hundred Karnak Khedive King ladies lake Lake Moeris land live look Luxor mediæval miles minarets Mohammed monuments mosque mummy native never night Nile Nilometer oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs Philæ photograph piastres picturesque Ptolemies pylon Pyramids railway Rameses Ramesseum Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand sculptures servants Seti side steamer suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing Thothmes today tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women wonderful