About this title: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. CAIRO AND THE MECCA PILGRIMAGE. 1 HE mosque of Sultan Hassan, confessedly the most beautiful in Cairo, is also perhaps the most beautiful in the Moslem world. It was built at just that happy moment when Arabian art in Egypt, having ceased merely to appropriate or imitate, had at length evolved an original architectural style out of the heterogeneous elements of Roman and early Christian edifices. The ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780712600385ISBN:0712600388
Description: Good. Spine-Slightly worn in accordance with age and use. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781409942467ISBN:1409942465
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Parkway Publishing, London
Date Published: 1993-01-01
ISBN-13:9781898259008ISBN:1898259003
Description: New. Clean, Unmarked Copy, Priority Shipping recommended for prompt delivery by USPS when offered, Delivery Confirmation on all domestic items where available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton Creek Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780981928425ISBN:0981928420
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company, New York
Description: Good. No Jacket. There is a sticker on the spine and number in ink on the spine. The book is also slight shaken and the covers have some shelf wear. There is a former owner's stamp on the page after the title page. There is significant foxing on the title page and the frontispiece. This is a history of a woman traveling on the Nile in the 1870s. The covers are light blue with gold and red decorations on the covers. read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00556 pages) amelia ann blandford edwards (1831-1892) was an english novelist, a journalist, a lady traveller and an egyptologist. she published her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at the age of 12. amelia thereafter proceeded to publish a variety of poe illustrated lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Edition: 2nd edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Goerge Routledge & Sons, Glasgow & New York
Date Published: 1889
Description: G. Pearson. Good. No dust jacket. Maroon Cloth boards with gold lettering & color illustration, book edges worn, corners bumped, worn along spine edges, cover is loose due to the. [528]p. : ill.; 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. spine glue drying out, pages are clean, very slightly sun yellowed on the edges. 2nd editon, Originally published in 1877, 83 illustrations by G. Pearson. HS001 read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00358 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lovell, Coryell & Company, New York, New York
Date Published: 1888
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book is in fair condition with discoloration streaks along cover and significant edgewear. Inside several pages have folded corner edges with a couple being torn. No DJ. A delightful travel memoir of late 1800's Egypt. While a donkey-ride and a boating-trip interspersed with ruins, sum up in a single line the whole experience of the Nile traveller, the author maintains that a good English saddle and a comfortable dahabeeyah add very considerabley to the ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Collectible-Acceptable NO DUST JACKET Publisher is H.M. Caldwell Company. NO DUST JACKET. EX-LIBRARY. Cover surfaces and edges has rubbing, fading and discoloring. Corners of cover are bumped and scuffed. Binding is cocked and spine is cracked. Library sticker on tail of spine. Some white out writing on tail of spine. Library stamp on FEP and inside of back cover. Ex-Libris plate glued to inside of front cover. Title page is detached but not missing. Library card glued to BEP. ... read more
Description: no plates as issued. VERY SHARP CLEAN SET. RED BUCKRAM CLOTH. THIS IS NOT THE 1ST EDITION. Thus no maps, or illustrations as issued. But it is complete and in v. nice condition. read more
Description: Very Good. Red hardcover, A. L. Burt Co, no date, The Home Library in gold on the spine, mild toning, plastic see through dust wrapper, ships within 24 hr, sku nr118. read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, London
Date Published: 1889
Description: G. Pearson. Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Blue stamped decorative boards, edgewear, top two inches of the top of the spine is loose, previous owner's bookplate affixed to the inner front cover, first couple of pages are loose, another previous owner's name and a date, Xmas-1889, inked on the second page, foxing to a few pages, water-staining to the outer pages that does no effect the text. No mildew. Front hinge is loose. Upwards of 70 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson, ... read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, New York
Description: Very Good. From Shepheard's Hotel one thousand miles up the Nile and back to Cairo---a remarkable story, well written. Illustrated. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 11/11/1982
ISBN-13:9780712600385ISBN:0712600388
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton Creek Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780981928425ISBN:0981928420
Description: Very Good. 9780981928425. Slight scuffing to edges of wraps. mild soiling to page edges. binding tight, no marks to the text.; 1.1 x 9.4 x 6.7 Inches; 532 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780712600385ISBN:0712600388
Description: Acceptable. Cover worn. Reading copy. All orders are dispatched from our UK warehouse within one working day. Established in 2004. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780712600385ISBN:0712600388
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"One of the best ways to get a feel for not just the Victorian behavior abroad but also what Egypt was like during the 1870s and the style of writing during this time. A must read for writers of historical fiction."
"A Victorian travel classic. Modern author Elizabeth Peters based her intrepid character Amelia Peabody on this real-life Victorian explorer/Egyptologist."
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