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    Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version] 

    Thomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author] (Rice University, 1897)
    .ENINSULAOUNTINAIUEZOUNTINAIONVENTTATHERINEOUNTINAINVIRONSINAITOUEZINAITOKABAHKABAHTOETRAAIROTOYRIAETRATOEBRONINAITOEBRON.ECENTXCAVATIONSINGYPTOURSINALESTINENDEX COOKS TOURS IN EGYPT, ARABIA PETRÆA AND LOWER BY KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E.COOK'S HANDBOOK FOR EGYPT, THE NILE, AND THE DESERT.Introductory.PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR TRAVELLERS.SEASON FOR EASTERN TOURS...
    , OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE, ETC. Illustration of title-pageCOOK'S TOURISTS' HANDBOOK FOR EGYPT, THE NILE, AND THE DESERT.UDGATEIRCUSO.TDFFICES OFHOSOOKONGYPTIMITEDEAREAR...
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    Hand-book for travellers in Egypt; including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. Being a new edition, corrected and condensed, of "Modern Egypt and Thebes" [Electronic Version] 

    Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875 (Rice University, 1847)
    port of ), by the river Nile, in steamers. ( Route 6.)See3rd, to across the desert; this part of the journey is performed in carriages. ( Route 7.) The entire journey...
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    Egypt through the stereoscope : a journey through the land of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version] 

    Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 (Rice University, 1908)
    the Delta, the scattered oases in the desert on the west, the eastern desert to the , with the greater part of the Peninsula of Sinai. Of cultivable soil the narrow valley above the Delta...
    northern end of the African continent is traversed from the Atlantic on the west to the Red Sea on the east by a vast desert, which is continued eastward through Arabia and far into the heart...
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    A handbook for travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt [Electronic Version] 

    John Murray (Firm) (Rice University, 1888)
    at orthographical transliteration, will no doubt provoke the wrath and scorn of the learned purist, but it seemed the best course to pursue, at any rate until some authoritative method of writing Eastern names...
    the traveller to Beyrout before the end of May. Or he may vary the latter part of this programme by only going to Mount Sinai, and instead of continuing the Long Desert journey...
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    Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1914)
    innumerable monuments has pointed with ever-growing certainty to the valley of the Nile as the cradle of history and of human culture. At the same time Egypt, like other Eastern countries, possesses high natural...
    districts contrasted with the solemn desert, and the manners, customs, and appearance of a most interesting and most diversified population.The HANDBOOK TO EGYPT, of which the present is the seventh edition, is founded...
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    Egypt: handbook for travellers [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1908)
    to the valley of the Nile as the cradle of history and of human culture. At the same time Egypt, like other Eastern countries, possesses high natural attractions, in the peculiar charms of its Oriental...
    climate, the singularly clear atmosphere, the wonderful colouring and effects of light and shade, the exuberant fertility of the cultivated districts contrasted with the solemn, awe-inspiring desert...
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    Egypt, handbook for travellers.Pt. 1. Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1885)
    districts contrasted with the solemn, awe-inspiring desert, and the manners, customs, and appearance of a most interesting, though not always pleasing, population. At the same time Egypt is pre-eminent among...
    ), a sultry, parching, and enervating wind from the desert, prevailing at longer or shorter intervals for about fifty days (whence the name), though in some seasons...
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    The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt [Electronic Version] 

    Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934. (Ernest Alfred Wallis) (Rice University, 1902)
    of Girgeh, and of Professor Petrie at . The village of Bêt Khallâf lies about nine miles west of Girgeh, on the skirt of the desert, and some distance to the north of it Mr. Garstang beâan to work...
    ; in the course of his excavations he discovered several maṣṭaba tombs of the Early Empire. Three miles south-west of Bêt Khallâf, in the desert, he discovered in 1900-01 the two large maṣṭaba tombs...
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    Egypt, handbook for travellers: part second, upper Egypt, with Nubia as far as the second cataract and the western oases [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1892)
    Elephantine13th Day. its bazaars, etc. Expedition to the tombs on (p. 269) recommended.Assuân,Mount Grenfell14th Day. Expedition into the desert on donkey or camel. Then cross to the island...
    an agreeable variety without adding much to the cost. For lunch 2–3 courses are usually demanded, and for dinner, soup, 3 courses, and desert.] All the dishes shall be well...

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