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A Thousand Miles Up The Nile [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1890)
.IRSTESTBURY-ONRYMOctoberPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.“Un voyage en égypte, c'est une partie d'ânes et une promenade
en bateau entremêlées de ruines.”MPÈRE.
A has put Egypt in an epigram. “A donkey-ride
and a...
, cataract, everything included except wine—was about £10 per day.With regard to temperature, we found it cool—even cold, sometimes—in December and January; mild in February; very warm in March and April...
, cataract, everything included except wine—was about £10 per day.With regard to temperature, we found it cool—even cold, sometimes—in December and January; mild in February; very warm in March and April...
To-day on the Nile [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1905)
.OPYRIGHTBYAMESOTTOF I, N, 1905IRSTMPRESSIONSOVEMBER
To MY FATHER
PREFACE
M motives may bring the
tourist to Egypt. But when he first sets...
foot on her shores, or rather even when his thoughts first turn thither, he feels that Egypt is something more than a mere health or pleasure resort. Egypt has a history longer and more...
foot on her shores, or rather even when his thoughts first turn thither, he feels that Egypt is something more than a mere health or pleasure resort. Egypt has a history longer and more...
The city of the caliphs; a popular study of Cairo and its environs and the Nile and its antiquities [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1898)
dominion, from its capture by the Ottoman Turks in
1517 down to the present time. In short, we need consider it
under two aspects merely, — first as the capital of the
Caliphs, and next...
, and they have been termed god-kings. To emphasise the distinction, Menes and the kings of the first dynasty are designated as the first earthly kings of Egypt.As to the origin of the Egyptians, scholars are divided...
, and they have been termed god-kings. To emphasise the distinction, Menes and the kings of the first dynasty are designated as the first earthly kings of Egypt.As to the origin of the Egyptians, scholars are divided...