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 xxi
... ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no city in Egypt which has so many unrestored mediæval buildings in good condition as Rosetta . ALEXANDRIA Old houses of the Rosetta type - some of the few domestic buildings left of the ...
... ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no city in Egypt which has so many unrestored mediæval buildings in good condition as Rosetta . ALEXANDRIA Old houses of the Rosetta type - some of the few domestic buildings left of the ...
Page xxiii
... ancient 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 ...
... ancient 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 ...
Page 4
... ancient Egyptian antiquities are found . I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum , the Ram - headed god , there , when I was howking for remains of Arab pottery . The Egyptian Babylon still has its Roman walls and one great Roman gate ...
... ancient Egyptian antiquities are found . I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum , the Ram - headed god , there , when I was howking for remains of Arab pottery . The Egyptian Babylon still has its Roman walls and one great Roman gate ...
Page 5
... ancient Roman citadel , are in ders1 - or little citadels of their own . One of them , called the Mo'allaka , or hanging church , because it is built on to a Roman bastion , is among the most beautiful churches in the world ; it can be ...
... ancient Roman citadel , are in ders1 - or little citadels of their own . One of them , called the Mo'allaka , or hanging church , because it is built on to a Roman bastion , is among the most beautiful churches in the world ; it can be ...
Page 6
... ancient Roman pictures . This little old church has wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli ...
... ancient Roman pictures . This little old church has wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli ...
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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