An Artist in Egypt

Cairo cafés, fruit stalls and markets share the pages with Edfu, the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila and the Sphinx in An Artis...

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Cairo cafés, fruit stalls and markets share the pages with Edfu, the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila and the Sphinx in An Artist in Egypt, a painter's colourful account of the country as it was lived in. Walter Tyndale wrote and illustrated the book, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912. His itinerary moves from city streets and religious buildings to river villages and across the desert towards Al-Qusair, so ordinary life carries as much weight as the ancient monuments.

Cairo cafés, fruit stalls and markets share the pages with Edfu, the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila and the Sphinx in An Artist in Egypt, a painter's colourful account of the country as it was lived in. Walter Tyndale wrote and illustrated the book, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912. His itinerary moves from city streets and religious buildings to river villages and across the desert towards Al-Qusair, so ordinary life carries as much weight as the ancient monuments.

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