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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... never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests . The history of Egypt covers countless centuries ; the most ancient and perfect of monuments are those of Pharaonic Egypt ; the most ...
... never has any country so surprised and fascinated me as Egypt . It is so full of different interests . The history of Egypt covers countless centuries ; the most ancient and perfect of monuments are those of Pharaonic Egypt ; the most ...
Page xxii
... towers and the white tombs of saints . One is never out of sight of a human habitation , hardly for a minute without the presence of human beings . 310 • 311 FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF MEMNON AT THEBES It and xxii List of Illustrations.
... towers and the white tombs of saints . One is never out of sight of a human habitation , hardly for a minute without the presence of human beings . 310 • 311 FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF MEMNON AT THEBES It and xxii List of Illustrations.
Page xxii
... towers and the white tombs of saints. One is never out of sight of a human habitation, hardly for a minute without the presence of human beings. FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF HEMNON AT THEBES . . XXII List of Illustrations.
... towers and the white tombs of saints. One is never out of sight of a human habitation, hardly for a minute without the presence of human beings. FACING PAGE THE STATUE OF HEMNON AT THEBES . . XXII List of Illustrations.
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... never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils . The street , in Arab fashion , changes its name twice or thrice before you reach the Sudanese bazar , with its painted chests and leopard skins , and turn up to the vast and ...
... never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils . The street , in Arab fashion , changes its name twice or thrice before you reach the Sudanese bazar , with its painted chests and leopard skins , and turn up to the vast and ...
Page 34
... never seen it . He prefers you to take a house of eight rooms and leave most of them unfurnished rather than take a house of three rooms and furnish them well . He has to make face before his fellow servants . While the land - boom was ...
... never seen it . He prefers you to take a house of eight rooms and leave most of them unfurnished rather than take a house of three rooms and furnish them well . He has to make face before his fellow servants . While the land - boom was ...
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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