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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...
Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1910)
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSBy
frontispieceon the cover
SKETCH-MAP OF EGYPT...
country Egypt might be, and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story.VERYIt must have been a startling experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills...
country Egypt might be, and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story.VERYIt must have been a startling experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills...
Five Months at Cairo and in Lower Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1883)
HECHOOLSHEOSQUE OFLZHARHEEPARTURE
FIVE MONTHS IN CAIRO AND
LOWER EGYPT.CHAPTER I.FROM MARSEILLES TO ALEXANDRIA.
F those not subject to
sea...
of the passage, we are on the open sea; at most, we perceive, when the air is very clear, the misty outline of Candia, like a great dark cloud hovering between the blue sky and the blue waves. We arrive in Egypt almost without seeing...
of the passage, we are on the open sea; at most, we perceive, when the air is very clear, the misty outline of Candia, like a great dark cloud hovering between the blue sky and the blue waves. We arrive in Egypt almost without seeing...
New Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1906)
resort overlooking Territet with its lovely bay on Lac Leman, I chanced to
meet an old friend of mine, a diplomatist, who had passed some ten
years or so of his life in Egypt.“I have just been reading ‘Au...
dear fellow,” I replied. “I am going to flirt with yours. You are bound for the land of the ‘Mousmé,’ I am bound for the land ‘of mummies.’”“Egypt?”A far off look came into his eyes, a sigh...
dear fellow,” I replied. “I am going to flirt with yours. You are bound for the land of the ‘Mousmé,’ I am bound for the land ‘of mummies.’”“Egypt?”A far off look came into his eyes, a sigh...
The land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1875)
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THE GREAT HALL AT .
Illustration of title-pageTHE Land of the Pharaohs.EGYPT AND SINAI:LLUSTRATED BYEN ANDENCILREV. SAMUEL MANNING, LL.D.“THOSE HOLY FIELDS,” “ITALIAN PICTURES,” “SPANISH...
and opposed, like the Church and the world under the Gospel. The allegory is continued into the New Testament, which opens with the announcement, ‘Out of Egypt have I called My Son.’ If the student of Holy Scripture...
and opposed, like the Church and the world under the Gospel. The allegory is continued into the New Testament, which opens with the announcement, ‘Out of Egypt have I called My Son.’ If the student of Holy Scripture...
Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
QUEER THINGS ABOUT EGYPT
Illustration of title-pageQUEER THINGS ABOUT
EGYPT...
.DOUGLAS SLADENILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY-FIVE INTIMATE PICTURES OF COUNTRY LIFE IN UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR AND A MAPONDON THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE FEAST OF BAIRAM...
.DOUGLAS SLADENILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY-FIVE INTIMATE PICTURES OF COUNTRY LIFE IN UPPER EGYPT FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR AND A MAPONDON THE BANNER OF THE PROPHET AT THE FEAST OF BAIRAM...
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1884)
history
of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have
for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein
of Old World politics.HEAn acquaintance...
of more than a quarter of a century with Eastern lands and peoples, and ten years passed in high command in Egypt itself, with unlimited opportunities for study and observation in every direction, may...
of more than a quarter of a century with Eastern lands and peoples, and ten years passed in high command in Egypt itself, with unlimited opportunities for study and observation in every direction, may...
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1874)
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Illustration of title-pageBOAT LIFE IN EGYPT
AND NUBIABYWILLIAM C. PRIMEAuthor of “Tent Life In The Holy Land,” “The
Old House By The River,” “Later Years,” Etc...
. In the summer of 1855 I left America for Egypt. The immediate object which I had in view was the prosecution of a favorite study. The kindness of my respected and distinguished friend, Joseph Henry, LL...
. In the summer of 1855 I left America for Egypt. The immediate object which I had in view was the prosecution of a favorite study. The kindness of my respected and distinguished friend, Joseph Henry, LL...
Egypt / by Pierre Loti ; translated from the French by W. P. Baines, and with eight illus. in colour by A. Lamplough. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1909)
comes it, seeing that usually the moon tints with blue the
things it illumines? One would not expect this colour either, which, nevertheless, is that of all the sands and all the granites of Egypt and Arabia. And then too...
, is rose-coloured. And meanwhile the , which has seen the unrolling of all the history of the world, attends impassively the change in Egypt's climate, plunged in profound and mystic contemplation...
, is rose-coloured. And meanwhile the , which has seen the unrolling of all the history of the world, attends impassively the change in Egypt's climate, plunged in profound and mystic contemplation...
A ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: with notes on the present state and ancient history of the Nile Valley, and some account of the various ways of making the voyage out and home. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1886)
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A RIDE IN EGYPT.A RIDE IN EGYPT.
The Oldest Statues in the World.A. Dawson, Photo-pcLONDON, MACMILLAN & CO...
is made to give some account of the present aspect of Egypt. They are the result of three visits to the Nile valley, comprising in all about fifteen months' residence.NIt may be matter of surprise...
is made to give some account of the present aspect of Egypt. They are the result of three visits to the Nile valley, comprising in all about fifteen months' residence.NIt may be matter of surprise...