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Letters From Egypt, 1863 – 1865
Letters From Egypt, 1863 – 1865 – Lucie Duff Gordon From travellers whose course of wild adventure and whose manifold and uncommon gifts put a pressure upon the reader in following them, similar to that felt by them in exploring, it is very delightful to turn to so small and readable, but fresh and pleasant […]
Egypt: Historical, Descriptive and Picturesque
Egypt: Historical, Descriptive and Picturesque – Georg Ebers Wherein lies the mysterious attraction which is peculiar to the land of the Pharaohs? Why is it that its name, its history, its natural peculiarities, and its monuments, affect and interest us in a quite different manner from those of the other nations of antiquity? Not only […]
Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes
Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes – Gaston Maspero In this volume Professor Maspero gives us a collection of charming word pictures of Egypt, in which history and archeology are made to blend with scenes of today, and the past is linked to the present. No living Egyptologist has such a command of facts as […]
Diary of A Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and The Holy Land
Diary of A Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and The Holy Land – Mary G. Damer That women of fashion should travel further than the magasins of Paris, or the cameo-shops of Rome, is meritorious: that they should keep journals while on their travels is industrious and creditable, but that they should publish the said […]
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt – William Wing Loring General Loring was one of many Confederate officers who after the close of the War of the Rebellion offered their services to foreign rulers. A number of these officers took their way to Egypt, and the author of this book was one of the most successful […]
The City of the Caliphs
The City of the Caliphs – Eustace Alfred Reynolds Ball Cairo has for centuries been the home of Oriental magnificence and despotism, and still, though fallen from its high estate, it ranks as one of the most typical and picturesque—as well as the wickedest — of Mohammedan cities, while its mingling of Oriental luxury and […]
Cairo, Jerusalem, & Damascus: three chief cities of the Egyptian Sultans
Cairo, Jerusalem, & Damascus: three chief cities of the Egyptian Sultans – David Samuel Margoliouth An indispensable talent or element in a writer of a book of travels is so to present every scene and object described that every reader shall seem to be present and go along with the traveler and see everything he […]
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia – William Cowper Prime An indispensable talent or element in a writer of a book of travels is so to present every scene and object described that every reader shall seem to be present and go along with the traveler and see everything he sees and through the same […]
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians Volume 2
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians Volume 2 – Edward William Lane It is now more than one hundred years since Lane gave to the world his admirable work on the Egyptians. It has become a classic, and no writer has given us such unsurpassed descriptions of the manners and […]
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians Volume 1
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians Volume 1 – Edward William Lane It is now more than one hundred years since Lane gave to the world his admirable work on the Egyptians. It has become a classic, and no writer has given us such unsurpassed descriptions of the manners and […]