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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... 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 under other people's governments as the Jew, if those governments ...
... 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 under other people's governments as the Jew, if those governments ...
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... side, and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall. This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes— the turbulent barons in armour, each with his commando of armed retainers, who were no ...
... side, and on the other by its rocks scarped until they are almost steeper than the wall. This was the scene of the famous massacre of the Mamelukes— the turbulent barons in armour, each with his commando of armed retainers, who were no ...
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... side of Cairo. In the 'mounds' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates, little dumps of ancient Egyptian antiquities are found. I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum, the Ramheaded god, there, when I was howking for ...
... side of Cairo. In the 'mounds' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates, little dumps of ancient Egyptian antiquities are found. I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum, the Ramheaded god, there, when I was howking for ...
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... sides with ancient Arab mansions, and containing the lovely mediæval baths of Sultan Beshtak, still in use, to the ... side of it is rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs— its Mak'ad or open hall, has three great arches ...
... sides with ancient Arab mansions, and containing the lovely mediæval baths of Sultan Beshtak, still in use, to the ... side of it is rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs— its Mak'ad or open hall, has three great arches ...
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... side of the sticky point, or you may have a quarter of an hour's free use of the tram as a waitingroom. Residents, however little they may be able to afford it, certainly do use cabs for everything; and this soon mounts up, though cabs ...
... side of the sticky point, or you may have a quarter of an hour's free use of the tram as a waitingroom. Residents, however little they may be able to afford it, certainly do use cabs for everything; and this soon mounts up, though cabs ...
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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