10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAHABEEYAH»
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dahabeeyah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dahabeeyah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It seemed that Corn Cob had heard from one man that there was another
dahabeeyah that had been moored by some "Ingleezeh*' by the bank some
distance upstream, and Corn Cob had told the people that if they"d get donkeys,
so Ruth ...
If we wanted to involve as few people as possible, we could take a dahabeeyah
from here all the way upriver." "Dahabeeyah ? " Jenny asked. She had asked to
join them, promising to keep out of the way. Though strictly speaking she had no
...
He returned to the dahabeeyah, cast off the moorings, and put the boat in
midstream. Then he armed his crew, and with several men entered a row-boat
and pulled ashore. The entire village, men, women and countless children, were
...
Your dream is coming true ; we shall see the Nile ; we shall have the speed of a
steamer, and none of the discomfort ; the luxury of a dahabeeyah, with none of
the delay, and a third of the expense. Congratulate yourself on your friend, and ...
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, 1888
But no dahabeeyah had been overtaken. The Fatma travelled slowly, often in an
almost breathless calm. And Isaacson, if he had ever wished, no longer wished
her to hasten. Upon his sensitive and strongly responsive temperament the Nile ...
Robert Smythe Hichens, 1909
But no dahabeeyah had been overtaken. The Fatma travelled slowly, often in an
almost breathless calm. And Isaacson, if he had ever wished, no longer wished
her to hasten. Upon his sensitive and strongly responsive temperament the Nile ...
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Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction
He returned to the dahabeeyah, cast off the moorings, and put the boat in
midstream. Then he armed his crew, and with several men entered a row-boat
and pulled ashore. The entire village, men, women and countless children, were
...
8
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!
9
Traveling Through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
A dahabeeyah, at the first glance, is more like a civic or an Oxford University
barge than anything in the shape of a boat with which we in England are familiar.
It is shallow andflatbottomed, and is adapted for either sail or rowing. It carries
two ...
Deborah Manley, Sahar Abdel-Hakim, 2004
10
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
It might have been only yesterday that my eyes last rested upon the scene, and
this impression was further strengthened by the fact that I saw it from the deck of a
dahabeeyah — not my beloved Philae, on which I had travelled during my first ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DAHABEEYAH»
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dahabeeyah is used in the context of the following news items.
Six books that inspire travel, from James Joyce to Frances Mayes
We traipsed through pyramids, explored the hot, narrow tombs of the Valley of the Kings and floated down the Nile by dahabeeyah, the 19th ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 14»
Egyptian pyramids, a dahabeeyah and the trip of a lifetime
We were sailing between Aswan and Luxor aboard a dahabeeyah, a four-cabin, 19th-century-style houseboat with two sails -- and a tugboat for ... «San Jose Mercury News, Dec 12»
Telling stories about myself
I remember once seeing Mipsie lying in a dahabeeyah in broad daylight, dressed only in purple sequins, with a goat bending over her. I've no ... «New Statesman, Mar 11»
