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 46
... tourists . Every now and then some Englishman in the Egyptian Civil Service marries the daughter of a well - off ... tourists as mosquitoes , and beneath contempt . A certain number of tourists try to get to know the residents , for no ...
... tourists . Every now and then some Englishman in the Egyptian Civil Service marries the daughter of a well - off ... tourists as mosquitoes , and beneath contempt . A certain number of tourists try to get to know the residents , for no ...
Page 48
... tourists , and that the military are to be found a good deal at the entertainments of the wealthier tourists . People with plenty of money and pretty wives or daughters can spend their days in a perpetual round of Society . For if in ...
... tourists , and that the military are to be found a good deal at the entertainments of the wealthier tourists . People with plenty of money and pretty wives or daughters can spend their days in a perpetual round of Society . For if in ...
Page 49
... tourists have gone that the real life begins at Ghezira . " Men and women in white , tandems , and motors ( and , I suppose , scandals ) , just like an Indian station . " CHAPTER V The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper THE HE 4 Queer ...
... tourists have gone that the real life begins at Ghezira . " Men and women in white , tandems , and motors ( and , I suppose , scandals ) , just like an Indian station . " CHAPTER V The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper THE HE 4 Queer ...
Page 106
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. six- THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET , Which all Cook's tourists are taken to sec . In front are bead and haberdashery stalls . [ p . 106 ||| P. 107 ] THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. six- THE FAMOUS LUXOR MARKET , Which all Cook's tourists are taken to sec . In front are bead and haberdashery stalls . [ p . 106 ||| P. 107 ] THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT.
Page 117
... tourist - ridden Nile . I suspect that the best hotel at Assuan for humours was the Pension - de - Famille kept by ... tourists are handicapped by the cabman's being unable to speak a word of any European language . The Grand Hotel has ...
... tourist - ridden Nile . I suspect that the best hotel at Assuan for humours was the Pension - de - Famille kept by ... tourists are handicapped by the cabman's being unable to speak a word of any European language . The Grand Hotel has ...
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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