{"title":"Illustrated Books (English)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnglish translations of illustrated Arabic classics and folktales, paired with historical manuscript art and period illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"narrative-of-a-five-years-expedition-against-the-revolted-negroes-of-surinam-john-gabriel-stedman","title":"Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam — John Gabriel Stedman","description":"\u003csection class=\"nile-epub-preview\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:26px 0 10px 0;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"border-left:3px solid #c9a25a;margin:0;padding:2px 0 2px 18px;font-style:italic;color:#3a332a;line-height:1.6;;display:block;column-count:1;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChap. 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At first I began with silkworms in my native city of Frankfurt am Main; afterwards I noticed that far more beautiful butterflies and moths came from other caterpillars than from silkworms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-style:normal;font-size:0.9em;color:#70655a;\"\u003e— Maria Sibylla Merian, preface to the reader (1705), translated from the Dutch edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:inline-block;background-color:#f0ebe3;color:#8b7355;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.03em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:8px 16px;border-radius:16px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e📖 Delivered as a downloadable ePub file.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px 0;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll 60 plates from Maria Sibylla Merian's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium\u003c\/i\u003e (1705), reproduced in full color from the original edition. 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The new cover is abstract artwork, not a historical photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"max-width:42rem;margin:1.5rem auto;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo012lg.png?v=1791727335\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo012lg.png?v=1791727335\" alt=\"Original Nile basin map, 1904\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal Nile basin map, 1904. 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A new introduction explains its Sudan connection and the historical region’s cross-border geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflowable English EPUB with linked contents and notes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal atlas plates, map, route profile and gold-washing diagram, with English captions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBishari vocabulary preserved, with English definitions in a mobile-readable glossary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition note:\u003c\/strong\u003e AI-assisted translation, editorially compared throughout with the French source. Historical prejudices and racial descriptions remain as evidence, not endorsement. Original image lettering remains French; original plate-reference inconsistencies are explained. The modern cover is an artistic interpretation. EPUB only; no audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside the illustrated edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"margin:1rem 0;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/eastern-sudan-mount-hegatte.jpg?v=1791760544\" alt=\"Original historical plate: Mount Hégatte and its wadi\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal historical plate: Mount Hégatte and its wadi\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"margin:1rem 0;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/eastern-sudan-caravan.jpg?v=1791760548\" alt=\"Original historical plate: Bisharin and Ababda caravan towards Mount Elba\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal historical plate: Bisharin and Ababda caravan towards Mount Elba\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"margin:1rem 0;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/eastern-sudan-wadi-well.jpg?v=1791760552\" alt=\"Original historical plate: well in Wadi L’Béda\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal historical plate: well in Wadi L’Béda\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e","brand":"Linant de Bellefonds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67628666847480,"sku":"EN-75717","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/eastern-sudan-english-cover.png?v=1791760539"},{"product_id":"an-artist-in-egypt-walter-tyndale-27-original-illustrations","title":"An Artist in Egypt — Walter Tyndale | 27 Original Illustrations","description":"\u003csection class=\"nile-epub-preview\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePreview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eCAIRO REVISITED\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"noi\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dropcap\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003eFTER a lapse of some years, I returned to Cairo\r\nto attempt once again to paint its ancient buildings,\r\nas well as the picturesque incidents seen\r\nin the shadows they cast or bathed in light against\r\ntheir sunlit walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI made an early start on the first morning after my\r\narrival, partly to look for a subject, and more particularly\r\nto see whether the pictorial side of the old quarters of\r\nthe city would still impress me as it did on my first visit.\r\nIt was a fateful morning, for had what I saw failed\r\nto stir up my former enthusiasm, I was resolved to pack\r\nup my traps, and try my hand in Upper Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hurried along the Mousky as fast as its usual\r\ncrowd of people would allow, and turned down the\r\nKhordagiyeh to see if an old favourite subject of mine\r\nhad not been ‘improved away.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say, it was a brilliant morning, for the\r\noccasional grey days of midwinter were still a long way\r\noff. Great awnings hung across the street, and on one\r\nside the shopmen were lowering blinds or rigging\r\nup matting, in anticipation of the sun which would\r\nshortly be streaming down on them. Everything still\r\nhad its summer look, though October was far spent;—and\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nCairo, let me say, is much more beautiful in hot\r\nweather than during the comparatively chill days of\r\nwinter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe particular houses I had gone in search of were\r\nhappily untouched; but had they been restored out of\r\nall shape or allowed to fall down for want of repair, I\r\nshould hardly have had room for a depressing thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the crowd of country folk and the heavily\r\nladen camels and donkeys, it was evident that a market\r\nwas being held in the open space in front of the Beit-el-Kadi.\r\nLocomotion was difficult till the Nahasseen\r\nor coppersmith street was reached, for here the road\r\nwidens out at the Muristân. This handsome building,\r\ntogether with the mosques of Kalaûn, en-Nasir, and of\r\nBarkûk, formed a magnificent group, massed as they\r\nthen were in a luminous shade. It was a meeting of\r\nold friends, and old friends looking their best. The\r\ndark awnings stretched across the road gave this pile of\r\nmasonry a light and ethereal look, though they were\r\ndark in contrast to the azure above, save where the sun\r\ntipped the domes and a face of the minarets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crowd allowed but little time for contemplation;\r\nI had to move with it, and reaching the short street\r\nwhich leads to the Beit-el-Kadi, a converging stream of\r\npeople carried us along till we arrived at the market\r\nsquare. I picked my way through the heaps of fruit\r\nand vegetables which littered the ground, passed behind\r\na group of camels, and worked my way to the steps of\r\nthe court-house, which gives its name to the market.\r\nFrom this point of vantage I was enabled to make some\r\nrough studies of the animated scene before me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nThe sun had now risen high enough to flood the\r\nlarger part of the square in light. Bits of matting, sailcloth,\r\nor anything which can cast a shadow, were rigged\r\nup to protect the more perishable goods, and the early\r\ncomers had taken advantage of the shade of the acacia\r\ntrees at the further end of the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe general impression is one of light, colour, noise\r\nand movement. The detail is full of human as well\r\nas pictorial interest. Various combinations of colour—some\r\nbeautiful, some inharmonious—leave ample\r\nscope to the painter to arrange his scheme. A pile of\r\noranges and lemons, with the black and deep purple\r\ndress of the fellaha saleswoman, make a striking note in\r\nthe foreground; the stacks of pitchers brought down\r\nfrom Balliana, in Upper Egypt, give a variety in buffs\r\nand greys, and the blue garments of the buyers are\r\nsufficiently faded not to contrast too violently. It is also\r\na great study of types and characters. The noisy Cairene\r\nis chaffering with the quieter Shami from far Damascus\r\nfor some pomegranates which are heaped before him;\r\nthe Maghraby hawks a bundle of yellow slippers; Jew\r\nand Greek are trying to outdo each other in a deal over\r\na spavined horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the motley crowd passes the brightly\r\ngarmented lemonade-seller, tinkling his brass cups; his\r\nrival, who retails licorice-water, seems more in demand;\r\none, carrying a heavy pitcher with a long brass spout,\r\ninvites the thirsty ones to partake of the charity offered\r\nthem in the name of God. ‘Sebeel Alháh yá atchan,’\r\nhe drones out at stated periods. He is less often met\r\nat markets than at religious festivals, and he is paid by\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nsome visitor to the tomb of a saint to distribute the water\r\nas a thank-offering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young camel about to be slaughtered is being\r\nled about and sold piecemeal, intending purchasers\r\nchalking on the hide of the beast the joint they wish\r\nto secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cheap-jack, with his usual flow of language,\r\ntempts the fellaheen to buy his European shoddy;\r\nKarakush, the Egyptian Polichinelli, is here, and also\r\nthe quack doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect is now rapidly changing as Bibar’s ancient\r\npalace ceases to cast its shadow over the further part of\r\nthe market, and my vantage-ground becomes untenable\r\nas the sun creeps round to the steps of the court-house.\r\nI work my way to the archway at the eastern side of\r\nthe square, and find another picture here well worth\r\ngoing to Cairo to paint, for from this point I get a view\r\nof the Muristân and the domes and minarets of its\r\nadjacent mosques, now in the full noonday sun. A\r\nstately background to the busy scene before me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe studies I had made of the market, though far\r\nfrom satisfying me, left me too tired to do more than\r\nmake a few notes and a promise to come here again on\r\na future occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a relief, after the glare and noise of a similar\r\nsubject, to turn down the narrow dark lanes which are\r\nfound in the residential parts of Old Cairo. The\r\none entered from the archway winds through the\r\nHasaneyn quarter and ends at the eastern entrance of\r\nthe Khan Khalil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese lanes where the old houses are still intact\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nare even more characteristic of Cairo than are the\r\nbusy streets, for something similar to the latter can be\r\nseen in most eastern cities. The projecting latticed\r\nwindows, which relieve the plane surfaces of the\r\nbacks of the houses, are a distinct feature of this city.\r\nKnown generally as \u003ci\u003emushrbiyeh\u003c\/i\u003e, they were originally\r\nsmall bays in which the water-bottles were placed\r\nto cool. The word is derived from the root of the\r\nArabic \u003ci\u003eshirib\u003c\/i\u003e, to drink, from which we also get our\r\nword sherbet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bays were gradually enlarged so as to allow two\r\nor three people to sit in them and see up and down\r\nthe street without being seen themselves. What corresponds\r\nto a glass pane in Europe is here replaced by a\r\nwooden grating. Each joint is turned, and so arranged\r\nas to make a pretty pattern. This grating is much\r\ncloser in the apartments of the \u003ci\u003ehareem\u003c\/i\u003e, and though it\r\nfreely admits the air and a sufficiency of light, it effectually\r\nscreens the inmates from those outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the enlarged bays one or more smaller ones\r\noften project in which the earthen bottles are now\r\nplaced. There are also small windows in the lower\r\npanels, through which I have often seen things hauled\r\nup in small baskets from the street. Sellers of fruit or\r\nsweetstuffs are often met in these lonely lanes, and\r\na stranger might wonder where they expect to find\r\ncustom. Presently a little grating will open and a face\r\nwill nearly fill the opening. Should the stranger have\r\nbeen seen through the lattice-work, the face will be\r\npartly veiled unless it be that of a child, and after some\r\nbargaining with the hawker, a small basket containing\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e\r\na coin will be lowered. The coin having been carefully\r\nexamined, the purchased article is placed in the\r\nbasket and they are hauled up to the window. ‘Ma’s\r\nsalama, ya sitt,’ ‘ya bint,’ or ‘ya Amma,’ according to\r\nthe degree of the purchaser, is usually the farewell\r\nsalutation of the hawker. But should the purchase\r\nnot prove on further examination to be up to expectations,\r\na lively altercation is sure to ensue, and voices\r\nfrom unseen parties behind the grating may also be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is sad to see how much of this \u003ci\u003emushrbiyeh\u003c\/i\u003e is\r\ndisappearing; it is seldom now repaired and is often\r\nreplaced by cheap sashes or is roughly boarded up.\r\nThere are several causes for this: it is expensive, and\r\nthe owners of the larger houses have mostly gone to\r\nlive in the modern quarters and have let out their old\r\nhomes in tenements to the poorer people. Much also\r\nhas been destroyed by fire. The houses usually project\r\nover the lane as each story is reached, so that the upper\r\nwindows often nearly meet the ones of the opposite\r\nhouses. It is easily imagined how a fire will spread\r\nwith so inflammable a material for it to feed on. The\r\ncheap imported petroleum lamps, which are replacing\r\nthe earlier form of lighting, have much to account for.\r\nMany of the best examples of \u003ci\u003emushrbiyeh\u003c\/i\u003e have been\r\nbought up by dealers to be made into screens or re-used\r\nin the modern suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs seen from the lane, the houses have a gloomy\r\nappearance; but it should be remembered that the\r\nCairene dwelling was not built to make an outward display,—its\r\nbeauty is seen from its inner courts or garden.\r\nWhen he views them from the narrow sunless lane, the\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nvisitor wonders how people can live in such unhealthy\r\nsurroundings. Should he be fortunate enough to have\r\nthe \u003ci\u003eentrée\u003c\/i\u003e to a house which is still inhabited by a\r\nprosperous owner, he will probably come to the conclusion\r\nthat no more suitable plan could have been adopted\r\nin a country where the summer lasts for three-quarters\r\nof the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI shall attempt to describe a visit to a beautiful\r\ndwelling later on; at present let us wander through the\r\nHasaneyn quarter, thankful that the rays of the sun are\r\nso carefully excluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaching the wider thoroughfare, where stands the\r\nmosque which gives the district its name, the difference\r\nin the temperature is immediately felt. We carefully\r\nkeep to the shady side of the road till we arrive at the\r\nentrance of the Khan Khalil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Khan, more commonly called the Turkish\r\nBazaar, is one of the few which every tourist is taken\r\nto see; it is in reality a series of bazaars, the most conspicuous\r\nbeing that of the metal workers. Passing\r\nthrough a massive doorway we enter a lane, roofed in\r\noverhead with long rafters and matting; the warm light,\r\nwhich filters through this, harmonises the various-coloured\r\nsilks and stuffs which are piled up in every\r\nlittle shop or hung out to attract a customer. Each\r\nshop is little more than a square cupboard, but as\r\ncarriages do not enter here the owners have been\r\nallowed to retain the \u003ci\u003emastaba\u003c\/i\u003e, or raised seat, on a level\r\nwith their floors and projecting two feet or more into\r\nthe roadway. This was characteristic of every shop in\r\nCairo, until carriages began to replace the litter and the\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nass as a means of locomotion. The merchant drops his\r\nslippers as he enters his place of business, while the\r\ncustomer can sit on the \u003ci\u003emastaba\u003c\/i\u003e and keep his slippered\r\nfeet in the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old acquaintance recognises me and invites us\r\nto sit down; he claps his hands, and the boy from the\r\ncoffee shop runs across to take his orders. When it is\r\ndecided whether we shall have coffee or green tea,\r\ncigarettes are produced and a series of courteous inquiries\r\nthen follow. I in return ask after his health and that\r\nof his children, but am not sufficiently intimate to allude\r\nto his wife. ‘Allah be praised, all are well.’ I ask\r\nhow his business is, and he tells me that it is Allah’s will\r\nthat things are not what they used to be. ‘Large rival\r\nstores now exist in the modern parts of Cairo and are\r\ninjuring the trade of the Khan Khalil.’ He might\r\nhave added that prices are more fixed in these new\r\nstores and that visitors have not the time to spend hours\r\nover a purchase. He asks me when I am coming to\r\nsit in his shop, again to paint that of Seleem, his opposite\r\nneighbour. He calls out to Seleem and asks him if he\r\nhas forgotten the \u003ci\u003eghawaga\u003c\/i\u003e who painted him and his\r\nwares. ‘Ya salaam!’ says Seleem, and crosses over to\r\njoin in the conversation. When the greetings are over\r\nit is time to begin the leave-taking, and with a promise\r\nto come again and possibly bring a customer we continue\r\nour way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am glad to find that both men still retain the\r\n\u003ci\u003ekuftân\u003c\/i\u003e and ample turban, and have not adopted trousers\r\nand the ugly red \u003ci\u003etarbouch\u003c\/i\u003e, as most of the metal workers\r\nhave done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nDescending some steps we come to the handsome\r\ngateway built by Garkas el-Khalíly in 1400; innumerable\r\nlamps, copied from those which used formerly to\r\nadorn the mosques, are exposed here for sale; brass\r\nfinger-bowls, salvers and ewers cover the counters, and\r\ntall damascened lamp-stands fill up every available place\r\non the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original colouring of the gateway seems to\r\nhave worn itself down to making a quiet and harmonious\r\nbackground to this sparkling mass of metal work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am soon recognised by the owner of one of the\r\nstalls, from whose shop I had also painted a part of this\r\nbazaar, and am again invited to sit down to coffee and\r\na cigarette. As some seven or eight seasons had passed\r\nsince my last visit to Cairo, and considering the thousands\r\nof foreigners who must have passed through these bazaars\r\nduring that time, it is astonishing that he should have\r\nremembered my face. There is, however, no time now\r\nto accept of the good man’s hospitality, but ‘In-sháalláh,’\r\nI shall return before many days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach turning gives us a fresh scheme of colour and\r\nthe interest of another handicraft. The carpet bazaar\r\nleads out of that of the metal workers. The small\r\ncupboard-shaped shop is here replaced by one or two\r\nimportant show-rooms, and here and there a beautiful\r\nold Persian rug makes one regret the crude colouring\r\nof the aniline-dyed modern ones which are replacing\r\nthem. Be the colours ever so glaring, the subdued\r\nwarm light which passes through the awnings makes\r\nthem part of one harmonious whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mass of red and yellow is what catches our eyes\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e\r\nas we look down the slipper market, at a right angle\r\nfrom the carpet bazaar. Festoons of slippers hang from\r\nshop to shop, they are piled in stacks on the counters,\r\nand large skins, both red and yellow, are being cut up\r\nand hammered about as if the supply was not yet equal\r\nto the demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have them on our right, and pass through a\r\ndouble row of stalls where we are pestered to buy\r\nstrings of beads, amber mouthpieces, cut and uncut\r\nstones, ‘Nice bangles for your lady,’ besides many other\r\nthings we are equally not in want of. Here we take\r\nour leave of the Khan Khalil, and I also of the imaginary\r\nreader whom I have attempted to conduct through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am fortunate enough to find an \u003ci\u003earabeyeh\u003c\/i\u003e, the\r\nCairene cab, and can ponder over my morning while\r\nreturning to the hotel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, Cairo is good enough for a second visit, and,\r\nplease God, a good many more. My second impressions\r\nwere perhaps pleasanter than my first ones, for I had\r\nnot now that bewildering sense of how I should set to\r\nwork, and also if it were possible to give anything like\r\na pictorial presentment of these scenes. The physical\r\ninconveniences of working in crowded streets and\r\namongst a strange people appalled me; but I did not\r\nthen realise, as I do now, how much a tactful guide can\r\ndo to make this work a possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"chapter\"\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"divider\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e11\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore historic Egypt through the eyes of watercolour artist Walter Tyndale. \u003cem\u003eAn Artist in Egypt\u003c\/em\u003e brings together his travels, observations and original paintings of Cairo, the Nile Valley, village life, markets and ancient monuments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete English text in 23 chapters, with preface and index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27 original illustrations with captions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover design based on Tyndale’s The Khan Khalil, Cairo, with AI-assisted styling and title\/author typography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflowable EPUB with clickable contents and selectable text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor EPUB reading apps such as Apple Books, Kobo and Calibre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA historical travel narrative reproduced with its original language and perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English. \u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e EPUB digital edition. 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To begin with its general configuration, Egypt does not have the more or less rounded shape of other countries. Apart from a few oases, it consists of the Delta and the Nile valley. The Delta, adjoining the sea, has the shape of a quarter-circle with a radius of 160 kilometres and its centre near Cairo. The Nile valley is 700 to 800 kilometres long and 10 to 15 kilometres wide. On one side it is bounded by a desert plateau extending to the Red Sea, and on the other by a chain of arid hills protecting it from the encroaching sands of the great deserts. Because the soil is formed from the Nile’s alluvial deposits, its surface is convex rather than concave, unlike valleys in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgypt is not crossed by carriage roads like our countries in Europe. Outside the main towns, wheeled carriages are unknown; the camel, with its bony frame and slow, rhythmic movements, is the principal means of transport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA traveller arriving on the banks of the Nile for the first time is filled with admiration for the charming scene before him. The saqiya and the mud-built village, crowned with slender palms, are reflected in the majestic waters of the river, crossed by boats. The palms’ tall trunks bear graceful plumes against a sky sparkling with light, or, towards evening, against a hazy atmosphere tinged with countless colours. Yet this view, enchanting and almost magical though it is, cannot be enjoyed with the same pleasure every day. Tomorrow and the day after, upstream and downstream, it remains the same. From one end of Egypt to the other, one finds the same palm-crowned village and the same brilliant sunshine. Everywhere the noise of one saqiya follows that of another, assailing the ears with the shrill grinding of its roughly made wheels. Before long, this unchanging scene loses its interest, if it does not eventually become tiresome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only change in the appearance of nature comes from the alternation of flooding and cultivation, with crops green or withered according to the season. One must look here for neither forest nor meadow, neither stream nor cool valley, nor green hillside. Nevertheless, the variety missing from the general landscape can be found in certain details. Nothing, for example, is more varied or picturesque than Egyptian dress. Here is the Turk in his ample trousers, sash, waistcoat and jacket covered in embroidery. There are the merchant and the craftsman, draped in the folds of a robe tied at the waist; the woman passing like a veiled ghost; the Jew wrapped in a long cloak; the fellah in his single blue or grey shirt; the Bedouin beneath the folds of his burnous; or the desert camel driver, arranging the folds of his cloth in countless ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCustoms, too, present many peculiarities, often the reverse of European practice. Among us, politeness requires a man to uncover his head and to keep his feet properly shod; the Egyptian keeps his head covered and must remember to remove his shoes when entering someone’s home. Here, a man is expected to attend respectfully to ladies; there, the reverse is true. Among us, propriety allows only the face to remain uncovered. There, if one encounters a woman, she hastens to cover her face, exposing her breasts in doing so if her drapery is insufficient to cover everything, as often happens. The wife of a wealthy man, before going out, covers her bright and attractive indoor dress with a shapeless garment that reveals nothing human but the two eyes needed to find her way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus, although the appearance of nature in Egypt offers little variety, there are many compensations elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe view in Plate 1, taken at a chance spot on the banks of the Nile, gives an idea of Egypt along its entire length. From the riverbank one sees a saqiya here or there, and several palm-crowned villages built on slight rises in the bank and the plain. In the background, whichever side one looks towards, a chain of low, barren mountains bounds the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the foreground of this plate are earthen plots prepared to receive the irrigation water raised by the saqiya. Spouts made from palm trunks convey it to earthen channels, which distribute it to each plot in turn until it is completely flooded. In the burning desert air, evaporation is so rapid that a light watering would evaporate and the earth would dry before moisture could reach the roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"source-link\"\u003eView the original French notice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCommentary: The banks of the Nile in Nubia and the desert mountains\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn reaching the upper part of Upper Egypt, and especially after passing the First Cataract, the Nile valley changes completely in appearance. It no longer has the level breadth of several leagues that characterises it in Egypt. Instead, it is cut narrowly between the two high edges of a vast rocky plateau, undulating and crossed by ravines, at the bottom of which one sees sand brought by the desert winds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Lower Nubia, the cultivable land that the fellah struggles to defend against the encroaching sand consists, in some places, of no more than the riverbanks themselves. Elsewhere it includes a few small adjoining patches, hemmed in by the bare slopes of the plateaux. At this sight, one wonders how these scraps of land could have fed a people powerful enough to erect the monuments whose imposing ruins are encountered at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 2 shows a view of Korosko. Here the Nile is less confined, and the plateaux are already beginning to become conical mountains, as we shall shortly see. Along the riverbanks are palm groves and a few cultivated plots. Behind them, on a barren shore, stand the rekouba, or Nubian huts. The mosque near the viewer and the governor’s house adjoining the cultivated fields stand out for their size. Beside the house can be seen the expedition’s tents and the caravan beginning to file past as it enters the desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 3 shows the mountainous country traversed during two demanding days’ journey south of Korosko, before reaching the plains called the Waterless Rivers and the Sea of Sand. Against the mountainsides lie shifting sands that may be moved by every storm; the winds usually deposit them on the slopes opposite to their direction of travel. These mountains consist of quartzose sandstone, which becomes less firmly consolidated as one proceeds south. They are not the result of upheavals or convulsions of the earth’s crust, although earthquake fractures may have marked out the valleys subsequently cut by erosion. They consist of irregular horizontal strata of differing density: some are loosely bound, while others are more firmly held together by a clay-and-iron cement, and resist the destructive action of atmospheric agents much better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe upper strata appear to be the hardest, but all are relatively heterogeneous. This geological structure produces strikingly picturesque effects: the summits do not collapse until their bases have been deeply undermined. Other strata form irregularities and projections on the steep slopes, or even allow the mountain to become split or pierced. Sand is carried into the valley bottoms, filling them to a certain level and leaving only the upper parts of the mountains exposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis same sandstone formation surrounds much of the syenitic rock at the First Cataract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sand-filled ravines cutting through its plateaux in Lower Nubia grow progressively wider as one moves south, until only more or less conical mountains, a little over sixty metres high, rise above the sand. Finally, twenty hours’ travel south of Korosko, these mountains disappear abruptly, their boundary following a clearly defined line from east-north-east to west-south-west. The formation does not end there, however: it seems to continue southwards beneath the sand. Small hills reappear from time to time, especially near the place where it finally ceases to be visible. These hills—one is shown in Plate 4—consist of sandstone even more friable than that of the last mountains. Slight mechanical force is enough to reduce it to sand of the same kind as the desert sand. The geodes found abundantly in these hills likewise contain sand of this kind, tightly packed but without cement. It is coloured in concentric bands of varying shades: the enclosing shell is firmly bound by an iron-rich cement.\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the fourth day’s journey from Korosko, this formation ends to the south against mountains of porphyry with a very hard petrosiliceous groundmass, dark red or greenish in colour, although the mass as a whole looks black. Farther south, sandstone reappears only around Shendi. To the south-west it is found again in Dongola, at Mount Barkal, where feldspar grains turning to kaolin have whitened it, and in the Bayuda Desert, where it contains geodes exactly like those in the small hills just described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudging from Hornemann’s description, the Black Haruj, extending between Awjila, Ghadames and Fezzan, and even between Murzuk and Bornu, seems to me to belong to the same formation. I shall return to this subject. Apart from his contradictory descriptions of the material as limestone and basalt in turn, and apart from the volcanic origin he attributes to these unusual mountains while acknowledging that they consist of horizontal strata, his account of the Haruj indicates a very close resemblance to the structure of the mountains just described. The iron-rich cement, however, appears to be more abundant in the Black Haruj. The sandy rocks of the White Haruj also seem to resemble the sandstone of Mount Barkal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI shall add a simple impression drawn from what I have seen. When they contain no cement, the vast accumulations of small angular quartz grains making up these mountainous regions seem to me, with few exceptions, to constitute the immense shifting expanses of the Sahara, such as those I crossed. In this condition, the material can neither retain water nor supply nutrients to plants. It seems indeed destined to form deserts whose absolute aridity supports not the slightest trace of life: glittering expanses flooded by a burning sun, where no vapour rises and no cloud can form to shade the traveller who dares cross their boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAuthor’s notes\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"source-link\" id=\"note-1\"\u003e[1] Élie de Beaumont examined the minerals collected on this journey and kindly arranged for a descriptive catalogue to be prepared at the National School of Mines. At the end of this work, that catalogue provides more specialised details than those given here. Interesting information on the part of this formation adjoining Upper Egypt can also be found in the description of Egypt made during the French expedition, volume XXI, page 1. Plate 4, figure 6, in its mineralogy section shows a ferruginous sandstone whose cement is arranged in spheroidal layers, apparently producing nodules or geodes like those discussed here. The specimens I collected, however, were more developed and lay loose upon the poorly consolidated strata in which they had formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"source-link\"\u003eView the original French notice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCommentary: Mirage effects in deserts\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarious travellers have described the more or less marvellous mirages they observed. Some saw landscapes in the midst of deserts, green islands, towns, and seaports with ships afloat. A few even believe they saw camels moving to and fro on quays, although they were beyond the range of places and objects that could have produced such effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll these accounts strongly impressed my imagination before my own experience enabled me to judge their true value. Now, however, after observing innumerable mirages while crossing deserts of every kind, including the hottest on earth, I have changed my assessment of these reports. We know\u003csup\u003e[1]\u003c\/sup\u003e that, for an object to be reproduced by a mirage, it must really exist beyond, or within range of, the place where the mirage appears. In the extremely rare case, in a desert, where the object is not directly visible to the observer, it must nevertheless be close enough to be seen. Otherwise its image, usually weakened and often distorted by refraction, would likewise be imperceptible to the eye. Thus the more or less astonishing mirages observed outside these circumstances are merely more or less distorted reproductions of objects actually reflected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mirage most commonly seen in deserts consists of the colour of the sky reflected by layers of air that have expanded unequally over certain parts of the ground. They resemble water simply because, like a liquid surface, these layers reflect the sky. The resemblance is not perfect in every respect, however. The boundaries of a liquid surface are fixed and clearly defined, whereas those of an atmospheric mirage are less distinct and almost always have a certain movement, a kind of oscillation, because the air is never completely still. This mirage occurs in three principal circumstances. In the first, the reflecting surface is isolated within an expanse of sand and consequently resembles a lake or pool. In the second, the mirage occurs at the horizon and merges with the sky, producing no effect beyond making the horizon appear lower than it really is. The third, which lends itself to many different illusions, occurs when the mirage lies below the horizon and touches the sky only at particular points, the lowest parts of the horizon line. Sometimes the observer need only stoop or straighten up for this contact to appear or disappear. When contact occurs, however, it does not begin with an almost imperceptible junction, as one might suppose. Despite a fairly distinct separating line, the contact suddenly extends across a certain width, and the sky and its image unite in rounded outlines. I can best compare this to two spoonfuls of water poured alongside each other on a table and gradually brought together. Instead of beginning at an imperceptible point, their contact suddenly takes place across a certain width. This junction produces outlines like those just described, although the physical causes of the two effects are different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 4 represents two particularly complex mirages. In the view of the Sea of Sand, a succession of contacts between the sky and its reflected image appears at the horizon, leaving only a few points visible between them. Their more or less fantastic shapes lend themselves to many illusions. These patches, whose colour can scarcely be distinguished at a distance, appear to one observer as rocks, to another as trees or a landscape, and to a third as green islands. As for their green appearance, it is likely that the traveller’s strong desire for the vegetation denied him in the desert contributes as much as distance to his assigning that colour to the hazy shapes he sees, especially when they seem to resemble plants. Others see a harbour entrance where the sky touches its reflected image, and ships at anchor or under sail in the visible points of the horizon. In some account whose name I no longer recall, there is even mention of camels moving on quays. But I think the patches, perhaps oscillating, taken for camels in Nubia or Arabia might equally have been taken for elephants in Sudan or gondolas in Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMirages that reproduce real objects without distorting them are less ambiguous, but always appear in front of, or close to, the objects themselves. One of the most remarkable examples I have seen was a row of doum palms reflected in four or five rows, one in front of another, as shown in Plate 4, the view of El-Delek. The effect resembled a staggered planting arrangement. With a little attention, however, one could see that the lower rows, which ought to have looked larger and more clearly defined if they had been real and nearer than the others, were instead less distinct and the same size as the most distant, or highest, rows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReflections of the sky were also visible at this place, although mountains bounded the horizon. For a mirage to occur in such circumstances, the layers of air must have strong refractive power. This happens when a cool breeze—as cool as a breeze can be under a burning sun—stops or subsides over strongly heated ground. The ground then rapidly expands the lower layers, giving them enough refractive power to reflect light rays at a more pronounced angle. Other conditions also favour mirages. If the ground between the observer and the reflected object contains a depression or hollow, a ray travelling from the object towards the edge of the hollow may undergo a series of refractions that makes it trace a curve resembling the curve of the ground. As these successive refractions accumulate along the curve, they eventually reflect the ray in a strongly altered direction. Consequently, as is indeed observed, most mirages seem to occur only over the parts of these hollows nearest the observer. It is now easy to understand that, if several depressions or hollows lie before an observer, each may separately produce a mirage. 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But if a light ray, instead of passing from one medium into a very different one, passes only from a denser layer of air into successive layers of slightly lower density, the ray is refracted through very small angles rather than a single sharply defined one. Added together, these angles form a curve. Suppose an observer is positioned to receive both the rays travelling directly from the objects to him and those travelling from the same objects towards the ground and then reflected. He will see the objects themselves and their inverted images beneath them. In his learned study of extraordinary refractions at the horizon, page 90, Biot explains a case in which an object can be seen directly together with two lower images, the first inverted and the second upright. 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