Pyramids and progress: Sketches from Egypt

[InTheDesert]

The origin of this sumptuously printed and beautifully illustrated book is thus described by its distinguished author. “ Egyptian literature is somewhat heavy. The volumes I have studied in order to learn a little about Egypt are too weighty to carry about, and so I thought a portable volume, describing something of my wanderings, and with a little historical knowledge introduced, illustrated by my own sketches and photographs, might be interesting to folks at home or might tempt a visit to Egypt, and when there to go up the Nile farther than Cairo.” If this is a guide book, it certainly is a glorified guide book. Everybody who thinks of going to Egypt and wishes to know what to do and see there — and everybody who does not think of going to Egypt and wishes to be as well off as if he had gone — should get this book.

https://archive.org/details/pyramidsprogress00ward