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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... WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN On the road from Karnak to Luxor. In the background are camels carrying stones for building. AT LUXOR Women with their shawls over their headburdens to ...
... WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN On the road from Karnak to Luxor. In the background are camels carrying stones for building. AT LUXOR Women with their shawls over their headburdens to ...
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... WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left. On the road from Karnak to Luxor. AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawal. THE ...
... WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left. On the road from Karnak to Luxor. AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawal. THE ...
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... WOMEN MOURNING This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the Conscription. The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country. HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women ...
... WOMEN MOURNING This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the Conscription. The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country. HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women ...
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... woman who lived in a tomb.” SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN On the road to the Great Dam. AN ASSUANGALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE Taken from my bedroom balcony, in the Cataract Hotel. These galleys ...
... woman who lived in a tomb.” SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN On the road to the Great Dam. AN ASSUANGALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE Taken from my bedroom balcony, in the Cataract Hotel. These galleys ...
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... women, who are separated from the men in Coptic churches, for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women. One of the chapels contains a very beautiful Byzantine Madonna painted before the Byzantines had lost the roundness ...
... women, who are separated from the men in Coptic churches, for the Mo'allaka has not the usual place allotted to women. One of the chapels contains a very beautiful Byzantine Madonna painted before the Byzantines had lost the roundness ...
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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