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De Guerville, A B. New Egypt
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| Author: | A B De Guerville |
| Title: | New Egypt |
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| Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
| Publication Date: | 10/16/2002 6:37:15 PM 1905 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| ISBN: | 1-931956-65-0 |
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| Format: | Paperback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), xiv+360 pages, 183 illustrations |
'To understand Egypt, to describe in a single volume its past glorious but in ruins, its present full of energy and work, its future of hope and promise, is humanly impossible. A New Egypt has not been written for my Egyptian friends, for those who know thoroughly this lovely land. Herein will be found only impressions, such as may strike the traveler as he makes his way from Alexandria to Fashoda, with here and there some remarks on matters political, financial, and religious, which I have been able to obtain from good sources. These sources are the highly placed personages in the Egyptian world, English, French, native and others; these men, keen and talented, who, in places, ministries, legations, schools, hospitals, banks or large industrial concerns, are working without ceasing for the regeneration of Egypt. I have knocked at all doors, rich and poor, high and low, and everywhere a warm welcome has awaited me. Enter, observe, criticize. Here are our attempts, and, alas! Here also are our failures.
My object will be attained if those who read these pages, and who have not already seen the Nile, will feel the desire to pass a few months in the land which, without doubt, for a winter holiday is a one of the most charming, agreeable, and interesting.' -- From the Introduction
AmTdTe Baillot de Guerville was one of the most talented travel writer-journalists at the turn of the last century. Her New Egypt, translated from French, is a remarkable record of Egyptian life (social, economic, and political) during that period. In English.
Table of Contents
- Alexandria
- Alexandria to Cairo
- Cairo
- Resurrection
- France in Egypt
- The Pleasures of Cairo and Her Laws
- Ismail And his Reign
- The Khedive Abbas Hilmi
- The Khedivial Family
- Harems and the Woman in Egypt
- Education and Religion
- Cairo to Luxor
- Luxor and Karnak and the Tombs of the Kings
- Assouan
- Assouan To Khartoum
- Khartoum
- The Sudan in 1905
- Society in Khartoum
- Twenieth-Century Comforts in Central Africa
- Fashoda
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