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

dc.contributor.authorThomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author]
dc.coverage.spatialAlexandria (Egypt); Cairo (Egypt); Ar Ramlah (Egypt); Heliopolis (Egypt); Ḩulwān (Egypt); Banī Suwayf (Egypt); Banī Ḩasan (Egypt); Al Kāb (Egypt); Asyūţ (Egypt); Thebes (Egypt); Luxor (Egypt); Madīnat Ambūs, Āthār (Egypt); Isnā (Egypt); Al Jīzah (Egypt); Idfū (Egypt); Aswān (Egypt); Philae (Egypt); Abu Simbel (Egypt); Suez (Egypt); Suez Canal (Egypt); Nubia (Egypt); Damanhûr (Egypt); Banhā (Egypt); Ţanţā (Egypt); Tanis (Egypt); Ismailia (Egypt); Şaqqārah (Egypt); Al Fayyūm (Egypt); Al Fashn (Egypt); Abīdūs, Ma‘bad (Egypt); Dandarah (Egypt); Nile River; Pyramid of Hawara (Egypt); Pyramid of El Lahun (Egypt); Bubastis (Egypt); Az Zaqāzīq (Egypt); Port Said (Egypt); Damietta (Egypt); Tanis (Egypt); Manzilah, Buḩayrat al (Egypt); Şā al Ḩajar (Egypt); Mount Sinai (Egypt)
dc.date.accessioned 2007-10-23T04:12:03Z
dc.date.available 2007-10-23T04:12:03Z
dc.date.issued 1897
dc.identifier.citation Thomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author]. "Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version]." (1897) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/9284.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/9284
dc.description.tableofcontents Contents: PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR TRAVELLERS. -- EGYPT. -- ALEXANDRIA. -- RAMLEH -- ALEXANDRIA TO ROSETTA -- ALEXANDRIA TO CAIRO -- CAIRO -- THE NILE. -- THE NILE JOURNEY TO THE FIRST CATARACT -- THEBES -- LUXOR TO ASSOUAN AND PHILAE -- FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND CATARACT -- CAIRO TO THE NATRON LAKES AND MONASTERIES -- CAIRO TO THE FYOOM -- CAIRO TO SUEZ -- ALEXANDRIA TO SUEZ -- SUEZ TO PORT SAID -- THE OASES -- CAIRO TO DAMIETTA. -- LAKE MENZALEH AND THE CITY OF SAIS -- CAIRO TO DAMIETTA. -- ALEXANDRIA TO DAMIETTA -- THE DESERT. -- CAIRO to SYRIA. -- PENINSULA OF MOUNT SINAI -- SUEZ TO MOUNT SINAI -- CONVENT OF ST. CATHERINE -- MOUNT SINAI AND ITS ENVIRONS -- SINAI TO SUEZ -- SINAI TO 'AKABAH -- 'AKABAH TO PETRA -- CAIRO TO SYRIA. -- PETRA TO HEBRON. -- SINAI TO HEBRON. -- RECENT EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT -- TOURS IN PALESTINE
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Rice University
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeries This text is part of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI), Rice University.
dc.relation.IsReferencedByResearch Module: Leading Nineteenth Century Publishers of Travel Guidebooks to Egypt, https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109672
dc.rights This material is in the public domain and may be freely used.
dc.subject.lcshEgypt--Guidebooks
Sinai (Egypt)--Guidebooks
dc.subject.otherArt & Artifacts
Daily Life & Customs
History & Politics
Travel & Transportation
Places & Architecture
dc.title Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version]
dc.digitization.specifications Images were captured using the TTI Better Light Super 8K2 digital scan-back system. Master Tiff images were scanned at 24-bit color, at 600 dpi for graphically intense images and 400 dpi for text. Textual materials are marked up in TEI/XML standard.
dc.source.original Original book: Thomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author]. "Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert." (London: T. Cook & Son, 1897). viii, 383, 56 p. : folded maps ; 18 cm. From the collection of Dr. Paula Sanders, Rice University.
dc.contributor.funder Funding for the creation of this electronic text provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI), Rice University.
dc.date.digital 2006
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dc.identifier.digital CooEg1897
dc.source.provenance Fondren Library, Rice University, DT45 .C77 1876
dc.type.genre travel guidebooks
dc.type.dcmi Text
dcterms.accessRights public domain


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