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The Great Coptic Centre in Egypt-Assiout.
(Rice University, 1918)
View of town on the other side of a river. Palm trees and small boats near the riverside and hills in the background. Black- and- white photograph....
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1874)
the long black lashes fell over his
cheek and his mind went wandering over the hills about
San Germano in the fair land of Italy, I used to think
I was looking at the face of him...
in white from head to foot, her dress the finest lawns and laces of exquisite texture; while, by way of contrast or foil to her beauty, an Indian servant, black as an African, and dressed...
in white from head to foot, her dress the finest lawns and laces of exquisite texture; while, by way of contrast or foil to her beauty, an Indian servant, black as an African, and dressed...
Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1910)
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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...
A handbook for travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1888)
Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1897)
-General of
resides. Donkeys are taken to the hills behind the
town, where a splendid view of the Nile Valley is
obtained—the tombs of the sacred wolf and
Meri...
Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1910)
mummy lying on its funeral bed. The hill stood out sharply, and the
stone lay scattered about in broad white slabs, stained with black where
the chambers of the mine had exploded. How many more summers...
, then the violated hypogeums, the hill with its bruised and peeled surface, a glimpse of the shining Nile, the coming and going of barges with sails set, an embankment striped with black and green, a line of trees, a...
, then the violated hypogeums, the hill with its bruised and peeled surface, a glimpse of the shining Nile, the coming and going of barges with sails set, an embankment striped with black and green, a line of trees, a...
Three Years in The Libyan Desert [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1913)
fantastic figures swarmed all round the , ready to clamber up her wet
sides and fall upon us. The impatience of the black, brown,
and red adventurers was greater than ours. At last, after half an hour's wait...
, but not the entrance to the Christian houses in the Sebel—a range of hills at —not even with the help of Beduins of the tribe in question. Excavations in that neighbourhood would certainly bring surprises...
, but not the entrance to the Christian houses in the Sebel—a range of hills at —not even with the help of Beduins of the tribe in question. Excavations in that neighbourhood would certainly bring surprises...
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)
rise up, ghostlike and motionless.NIGHTIs that a hill of sand that rises yonder? One can
scarcely tell, for it has as it were no shape, no outline;
rather it seems like a great rosy cloud, or some huge...
in the hollows and far away, this wonderful silver moon reveals even their slightest gestures; for their white robes and black cloaks stand sharply out against the monotonous rose of the desert. At times they call...
in the hollows and far away, this wonderful silver moon reveals even their slightest gestures; for their white robes and black cloaks stand sharply out against the monotonous rose of the desert. At times they call...