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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... live through the winter at all, without the fear of tropical scourges before their eyes. Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line, having been shown a deep, deep well, still to be ...
... live through the winter at all, without the fear of tropical scourges before their eyes. Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line, having been shown a deep, deep well, still to be ...
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... live under other people's governments as the Jew, if those governments can ensure him equitable taxation, respect for his property, and good conditions for his commerce. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up with ...
... live under other people's governments as the Jew, if those governments can ensure him equitable taxation, respect for his property, and good conditions for his commerce. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up with ...
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... live by agriculture. In the country, superintending the cultivation of his lands, he is a gentleman, though he is not the kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice. The evil of communication with ...
... live by agriculture. In the country, superintending the cultivation of his lands, he is a gentleman, though he is not the kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice. The evil of communication with ...
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... live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs. I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which ...
... live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs. I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile steamers which ...
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... live at the Court of the great Rameses, in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream. I have given many pages to describing that dream, not forgetting the humours of the donkeyboys who conduct you to the Court. DOUGLAS ...
... live at the Court of the great Rameses, in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream. I have given many pages to describing that dream, not forgetting the humours of the donkeyboys who conduct you to the Court. DOUGLAS ...
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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