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 viii
... live through the winter at all , without the fear of tropical scourges before their eyes . Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics ; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still ...
... live through the winter at all , without the fear of tropical scourges before their eyes . Assuan is on the northern horizon of the tropics ; Herodotus thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still ...
Page x
... live under other people's governments as the Jew , if those governments can ensure him equitable taxation , respect for his property , and good conditions for his commerce . Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up ...
... live under other people's governments as the Jew , if those governments can ensure him equitable taxation , respect for his property , and good conditions for his commerce . Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up ...
Page xi
... live by agriculture . In the country , superintending the cultivation of his lands , he is a gentleman , though he is not the kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice . The evil of communication with ...
... live by agriculture . In the country , superintending the cultivation of his lands , he is a gentleman , though he is not the kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice . The evil of communication with ...
Page xiii
... live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers ...
... live and work as they did in the days of the Bible and the Pharaohs . I have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert ; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis ; the comedy of the Nile steamers ...
Page xiv
... live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court ...
... live at the Court of the great Rameses , in an atmosphere so exquisitely mild that life is a dream . I have given many pages to describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court ...
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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