Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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Page ix
... Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what character are the remains left by the Pharaohs in the fifty centuries during which they were laying the basis of civilisation ? Tombs and temples , and the tiniest minutiæ of household ...
... Romans felt the influences of Egypt . Of what character are the remains left by the Pharaohs in the fifty centuries during which they were laying the basis of civilisation ? Tombs and temples , and the tiniest minutiæ of household ...
Page xxi
... Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in Cleopatra's time . About an hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at Venice , and has old ...
... Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in Cleopatra's time . About an hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at Venice , and has old ...
Page xxii
... ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS • 293 A group of dragomans on the river bank at Luxor ...
... ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS • 293 A group of dragomans on the river bank at Luxor ...
Page xxiii
... Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The ruins of this group are a mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its ...
... Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE TOWN 381 THE TEMPLE OF AMON - RA AT KARNAK 412 The largest in the world . The ruins of this group are a mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its ...
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... ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS . . . . . . 293 A group of dragoiuans on the river ...
... ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS . . . . . . 293 A group of dragoiuans on the river ...
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Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt ANGELES antique Antony Arab asked Assuan bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine blue built Cæsar Cairo CALIFORN called camels canal Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colonnades colour columns cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey donkey-boys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Fayum feet fellahin French galabeah garden Greek humours hundred Italian Joseph Julius Cæsar Karnak Khedive King ladies lake land LIBRARY live look Luxor mediæval Mehemet Ali meshrebiya miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mummy native never night Nile oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs photographs piastres picturesque police Ptolemies pylon railway Rameses Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand servants shillings side steamer Sudan suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women