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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... rich in small ancient buildings as ElKatai. Between it and ElKahira lie the ancient mosques and dervish tekkes of the Hilmiya and the Gamamise, leading to the palace of Sheikh Sadat, the type of the great Arab mansion, where, till he ...
... rich in small ancient buildings as ElKatai. Between it and ElKahira lie the ancient mosques and dervish tekkes of the Hilmiya and the Gamamise, leading to the palace of Sheikh Sadat, the type of the great Arab mansion, where, till he ...
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... rich carpets and soft divans, which betoken that its mediæval splendour does not form a museum, but the home in which a Cairo notable of today leads his luxurious life. PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I ...
... rich carpets and soft divans, which betoken that its mediæval splendour does not form a museum, but the home in which a Cairo notable of today leads his luxurious life. PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER I ...
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... rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the lessons. After taking the certificates, the boy will be a man and will be employed in a service in the government. After that his father will marry him a beautiful girl and the boy ...
... rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the lessons. After taking the certificates, the boy will be a man and will be employed in a service in the government. After that his father will marry him a beautiful girl and the boy ...
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... rich or middle. Those go to school are said to take three, or eighter to take two or one at the least, and when they appointed, they are married after a few years after. “OSMAN BADRAN.” “The father and the mother of a boy must take care ...
... rich or middle. Those go to school are said to take three, or eighter to take two or one at the least, and when they appointed, they are married after a few years after. “OSMAN BADRAN.” “The father and the mother of a boy must take care ...
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... rich. In this case he will be as he wishes, if he is willing to be employed he will be or if he prefers to go to one of the countries of Europe to learn more he will go where he prefers when he comes and be employed, he will marry ...
... rich. In this case he will be as he wishes, if he is willing to be employed he will be or if he prefers to go to one of the countries of Europe to learn more he will go where he prefers when he comes and be employed, he will marry ...
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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