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Excerpt from Handbook for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile Through Egypt and Nubia, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, the Fyoom, &C The original Handbook for Egypt was a reprint of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's learned and exhaustive work, 'Modern Egypt and Thebes,' corrected and revised by the erudite author himself, so as to meet as far as possible the requirements of a guide-book. A few additions and corrections were subsequently made from time to time, but subantially the Handbook remained the same as when it was first published. Great changes, however, have taken place in Egypt since then, and it was felt that a thorough revision, and even recasting, were necessary in order to bring the Handbook up to the standard required by travellers at the present day. Since the accession of the Khedive, Ismail Pasha, the work of change and progress has been carried on in Egypt at an almost feverish rate of speed. Several hundreds of miles of railway have been completed, and are in full operation. The telegraph wires intersect every part of the country. Many parts of Alexandria and Cairo are so changed that those who saw them only a few years ago would hardly recognise them; and while some towns in the Delta have declined, many more have risen and are rising into considerable importance. The Suez Canal from being a "chis merical" project has become an accomplished fact; and the towns of Port Said, Ismailia, and it may almost be said Suez, have sprung into existence with it. The changes of which these are a few instances have, in a great measure, arisen from, and in their turn caused, an increased communication between Egypt and the West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Pełny tytuł: Handbook for Travellers in Egypt
• Podtytuł: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile Through Egypt and Nubia, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, the Fyoom, &C (Classic R
• Autor: John Murray
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 720
• EAN: 9781331523376
• ISBN: 9781331523376
• ID: 09760129
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 948 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 37 mm
• Data wydania: 03. July 2015

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