Thompson, Joseph P.: Photographic views of Egypt, past and present (Boston, 1854)

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Thompson, Joseph P.
Photographic views of Egypt, past and present — Boston, 1854

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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14563#0406

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V-VII Preface
IX-XII Contents
1-16 Chapter I: First impressions – Alexandria, ancient and modern
17-25 Chapter II: preparations for the voyage – Donkeys, cooks, marketing
26-31 Chapter III: The embarkation – Mahmoodeeh Canal – The Nile
32-44 Chapter IV: Nile comforts; A Nile boat and crew
45-53 Chapter V: Navigation, villages, bazaar, houses, and children
54-63 Chapter VI: Occupations of the people – Water jars – Productions – Tillage – The shadoof an the Sakia
64-69 Chapter VII: Tenure of land – Disposition and manners of the people
70-73 Chapter VIII: The desert and the railroad
74-81 Chapter IX: Cairo the magnificent
82-89 Chapter X: Scenery of the Nile – Day and night
90-95 Chapter XI: Minieh – A sugar factory – Visit to a Bey
96-99 Chapter XII: River Saints and Coptic hermits
100-111 Chapter XIII: Sabbaths on the Nile – A missionary incident
112-114 Chapter XIV: Marriage and mourning
115-121 Chapter XV: Orientalizing – A village coffee-house
122-124 Chapter XVI: Crocodiles
125-131 Chapter XVII: Denderah – Keneh – A human heart
132-136 Chapter XVIII: Trees and birds
137-142 Chapter XIX: Negadeh – Salutations – A Coptic church
143-151 Chapter XX: Mother Egypt – Thebes – Temples and monuments – The nineteenth century
152-157 Chapter XXI: Memnon still sounds
158-176 Chapter XXII: Fragments of Theban history – Sources – Rosetta stone – Hieroglyphics – Antiquities
177-181 Chapter XXIII: Chronology of the Bible
182-189 Chapter XXIV: History continued – Correspondences with the Bible
190-196 Chapter XXV: Recent discoveries at Thebes – Memorials of early Christanity
197-209 Chapter XXVI: The tombs of Thebes – Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians
210-217 Chapter XXVII: Gods of the Egyptians – Doctrine of immortality
218-230 Chapter XXVIII: Dissolving views – Panorama of Karnac
231-240 Chapter XXIX: A chapter of items – Parting from Thebes – Getting news – The Sirocco – Emigration – Inauguration day
241-246 Chapter XXX: Girgeh and Abydos – Fertility and desolation
247-252 Chapter XXXI: Italians and Copts
253-262 XXXII: Osioot, or wolf-town – The old and the new – A modern cemetery – Soldier making – John the hermit
263-273 Chapter XXXIII: Antiquity of art and science – True antiquity of Egypt
274-282 Chapter XXXIV: Climate of the Nile – A chapter for invalids
283-288 Chapter XXXV: Cairo again – Shoobra – Rhoda – Old Cairo – The derwishes
289-297 Chapter XXXVI: Mohammedanism – Mosques and prayers
298-307 Chapter XXXVII: Mohammedan infidels – Prospects of evangelization – Toleration
308-322 Chapter XXXVIII: Early Christianity in Egypt – Persecutions and triumphs – Destruction of idolatry
323-337 Chapter XXXIX: Hope for Egypt – The Cops, their history and ritual – A plea for missions
338-345 Chapter XL: Heliopolis, the city of Joseph – The pyramids and sphinx - Egypt a sepulchre
347-358 Appendix
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