The Spell of Egypt |
|
| Author:
| Hichens, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4937-4357-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $5.50 |
Book Description:
|
A personal odyssey to the land of sand, ruins and gold. Nowhere in literature is there to be read a more exquisite and sympathetic description of the wonders to be seen upon the Nile journey than in this book.
"Should be in the satchel of every traveler to Egypt." -Publishers Weekly
"In these days of much rereading of fMr. Hichen's 'Garden of Allah' and 'Bella Donna,' due to the presentation of plays founded on these novels in New York and London, it is good to have an...
More Description
A personal odyssey to the land of sand, ruins and gold. Nowhere in literature is there to be read a more exquisite and sympathetic description of the wonders to be seen upon the Nile journey than in this book.
"Should be in the satchel of every traveler to Egypt." -Publishers Weekly
"In these days of much rereading of fMr. Hichen's 'Garden of Allah' and 'Bella Donna,' due to the presentation of plays founded on these novels in New York and London, it is good to have an inexpensive edition of a book whose description of one part of North Africa - Egypt - will certainly rank with the author's more celebrated description of another part - Algeria." -New Outlook, Volume 100, January, 1912
"The book makes a magnificent gift." -Life Magazine, Volume 52, July, 1908
CONTENTS
THE PYRAMIDS
THE SPHINX
SAKKARA
ABYDOS
THE NILE
DENDERAH
KARNAK
LUXOR
COLOSSI OF MEMNON
MEDINET-ABU
THE RAMESSEUM
DEIR-EL-BAHARI
THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS
EDFU
KOM OMBOS
PHILAE
"PHARAOH'S BED"
OLD CAIRO
"Egypt calls--even across the space of the world; and across the space of the world he who knows it is ready to come, obedient to its summons, because in thrall to the eternal fascination of the "land of sand, and ruins, and gold"; the land of the charmed serpent, the land of the afterglow, that may fade away from the sky above the mountains of Libya, but that fades never from the memory of one who has seen it from the base of some great column, or the top of some mighty pylon; the land that has a spell--wonderful, beautiful Egypt."