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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... 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 CATARACT HOTEL ATASSUAN Looking out.
... 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 CATARACT HOTEL ATASSUAN Looking out.
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... tourists well. I, who have in “Egypt and the English” told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour, may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants, who waited on me in various ships and hotels ...
... tourists well. I, who have in “Egypt and the English” told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour, may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants, who waited on me in various ships and hotels ...
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... tourist wishes to have breakfast uncomfortably early, he has not to hunt up the baker, and get the butter off the ice; he simply produces biscuits. He can clean boots well: he is noted for the resplendence of his own. But he often kills ...
... tourist wishes to have breakfast uncomfortably early, he has not to hunt up the baker, and get the butter off the ice; he simply produces biscuits. He can clean boots well: he is noted for the resplendence of his own. But he often kills ...
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... tourists fond of sightseeing do not stand upon this kind of ceremony; they find them very useful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block. It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point, or ...
... tourists fond of sightseeing do not stand upon this kind of ceremony; they find them very useful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block. It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point, or ...
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... tourists if I had been willing to give up my afternoons to tea; but I much prefered seeing the men at their offices instead of their homes, because they were generally able to give up as much time as I wanted for arriving at any ...
... tourists if I had been willing to give up my afternoons to tea; but I much prefered seeing the men at their offices instead of their homes, because they were generally able to give up as much time as I wanted for arriving at any ...
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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