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. |
From inside the book
Page 10
... land of El - Nahassin , the most romantic highway of antiquity in all Cairo . The Muristan and mosque of Sultan Kalaûn , the mosque and tomb of Sultan En - Nasr , the mosque of Sultan Barkûk , and the old sheikh's house beyond - where ...
... land of El - Nahassin , the most romantic highway of antiquity in all Cairo . The Muristan and mosque of Sultan Kalaûn , the mosque and tomb of Sultan En - Nasr , the mosque of Sultan Barkûk , and the old sheikh's house beyond - where ...
Page 12
... by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes , who were long resident in the land of the Phoenix . under the shade of a tree in the field , 12 CHAP PART I Anecdotes Illustrating the Egyptian Character ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT.
... by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes , who were long resident in the land of the Phoenix . under the shade of a tree in the field , 12 CHAP PART I Anecdotes Illustrating the Egyptian Character ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE IN EGYPT.
Page 23
... land to be a student of one its colleges . I am going to be a doctor , as I saw that doctors receive much money and all the people love them when they are clever and do all their doing only for God not for thanks . I heard about ...
... land to be a student of one its colleges . I am going to be a doctor , as I saw that doctors receive much money and all the people love them when they are clever and do all their doing only for God not for thanks . I heard about ...
Page 25
... land ; you would not spend much money . " MOHAMMED HOSSEIN . " " The country that I live in outside Egypt is ' Switzerland . ' This country has healthy climate , a shine and blue sky , a good and fertile land , in spite of that it is a ...
... land ; you would not spend much money . " MOHAMMED HOSSEIN . " " The country that I live in outside Egypt is ' Switzerland . ' This country has healthy climate , a shine and blue sky , a good and fertile land , in spite of that it is a ...
Page 34
... land - boom was on , the result was disastrous . But now that so many people have been ruined , and so many others have gone out of the town to Zeitoun , and the Skeleton City , and other suburbs , and Cairo is so overbuilt , a bachelor ...
... land - boom was on , the result was disastrous . But now that so many people have been ruined , and so many others have gone out of the town to Zeitoun , and the Skeleton City , and other suburbs , and Cairo is so overbuilt , a bachelor ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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