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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... ANCIENTS The avenue on the site of the city wall. A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor. EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she ...
... ANCIENTS The avenue on the site of the city wall. A TYPICAL CAMEL GROUP Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor. EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... ancient Roman pattern, hardly changed. A TYPICAL NILE TOWN THE TEMPLE OF AMONRAAT KARNAK 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 principal ...
... ancient Roman pattern, hardly changed. A TYPICAL NILE TOWN THE TEMPLE OF AMONRAAT KARNAK 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 principal ...
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... ancient Egyptian antiquities are found. I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum, the Ramheaded god, there, when I ... ancient, and go back to the days when the churches were the particular object of Moslem persecution and insult. They ...
... ancient Egyptian antiquities are found. I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum, the Ramheaded god, there, when I ... ancient, and go back to the days when the churches were the particular object of Moslem persecution and insult. They ...
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... ancient, and their ivory discs are carved as delicately as the ivory crucifixes and reliquaries in the great days of Byzantine art. These old screens, which have Moresque arches inserted at a later date to lead to the sanctuary, have ...
... ancient, and their ivory discs are carved as delicately as the ivory crucifixes and reliquaries in the great days of Byzantine art. These old screens, which have Moresque arches inserted at a later date to lead to the sanctuary, have ...
Contents
ON THE HUMOURS OF THE SUFFRAGI THE EGYPTIAN SERVANT | |
HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO | |
QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY | |
THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER | |
MORE ABOUT AGENORIAS SERVANTS | |
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 | |
DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS | |
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