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 209
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. R CHAPTER XXII Rosetta OSETTA , undiscovered by the tourist , is one of the most beautiful places in Egypt . As the traveller approaches it his hopes rise high , for the train takes him past lagoons , more ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. R CHAPTER XXII Rosetta OSETTA , undiscovered by the tourist , is one of the most beautiful places in Egypt . As the traveller approaches it his hopes rise high , for the train takes him past lagoons , more ...
Page 213
... tourist's eye ; it has no cheap European wares to seduce the Arab from his own durable , suitable , picturesque , hand - made articles . Here you have the native in fellah simplicity as you find him only where the white man never goes ...
... tourist's eye ; it has no cheap European wares to seduce the Arab from his own durable , suitable , picturesque , hand - made articles . Here you have the native in fellah simplicity as you find him only where the white man never goes ...
Page 215
... tourists , keeps no slippers for Unbelievers in its mosques . We found ourselves in a quaint , small court . One side , opposite the liwân , was formed by an ancient mansion , the other three had uncut brick piers and stilted arches ...
... tourists , keeps no slippers for Unbelievers in its mosques . We found ourselves in a quaint , small court . One side , opposite the liwân , was formed by an ancient mansion , the other three had uncut brick piers and stilted arches ...
Page 217
... tourist for whatever he can get , and is very thankful for so very few piastres : Rosetta is too unspoiled for that . They had fine Arab manners , so we did not drive them away , especially since one of them murmured Felookah , and the ...
... tourist for whatever he can get , and is very thankful for so very few piastres : Rosetta is too unspoiled for that . They had fine Arab manners , so we did not drive them away , especially since one of them murmured Felookah , and the ...
Page 229
... tourists know sur- prisingly little of the Fayum , which is a pity , for there are features in the Fayum which adapt it for a tourist - centre , and make it a future Mena or Luxor or Assuan . The dearth of postcards of the Fayum - the ...
... tourists know sur- prisingly little of the Fayum , which is a pity , for there are features in the Fayum which adapt it for a tourist - centre , and make it a future Mena or Luxor or Assuan . The dearth of postcards of the Fayum - the ...
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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