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Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé, credited to Foster Barham Zincke, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé by Foster Barham Zincke. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea this famous name stands for, which must be brought prominently into view in any honest and useful construction of the idea. Something of this kind is what the author of the following work has been desirous of attempting, and so was unable, as he was also unwilling, to pass by any point, or question, which fell within the requirements of his design. His aim, throughout, has been to aid those who have not studied the subject much, or perhaps at all, in understanding what it is in the past, and in the present, that gives to Egypt a claim on their attention. The pictures of things, and the thoughts about them, which he offers to his readers, are the materials with which the idea of Egypt has been built up in his own mind: they will judge how far with, or without, reason. The work had its origin in a tour the author made through the country in the early months of this year. It consists, indeed, of the thoughts that actually occurred to him at the time, and while the objects that called them forth were still before him; with, of course, some[x] pruning, and, here and there, some expansion or addition. They are presented to the reader with somewhat more of methodical arrangement than would have been possible had the hap-hazard sequence, in which the objects and places that suggested them were visited, been adhered to. As he started for Egypt at a few hours’ notice, it did not occur to him to take any books with him. This temporary absence of the means of reference, and verification, will, in some measure, account for the disposition manifested throughout to follow up the trains of thought Egyptian objects quicken in the beholder’s mind. These excursus, however, as they will appear to those who take little interest in the internal, and ask only for the external, incidents of travel, have been retained, not merely because they were necessary for what came to be the design of the work, but also because, had they been excluded, the work would have ceased to be something real; for then it would not have been what it professes to be, that is, a transcript of the thoughts which the sights of Egypt actually gave rise to in the authors mind. Wherstead Vicarage: May 13, 1871. - Summary by from the Introduction to the first edition.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé
• Author credits: Foster Barham Zincke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 62
• Listed recording duration: 16:55:50

Catalogue topics

• africa
• egypt
• nile
• Thebes
• pharaohs
• alexandria

Opening tracks: first 24 of 62

1. 01 - Egypt and the Nile — 18:26
2. 02 - How in Egypt Nature affected Man — 26:09
3. 03 - Who were the Egyptians? — 34:18
4. 04 - Egypt the Japan of the Old World — 4:59
5. 05 - Backsheesh.—The Girl of Bethany — 12:51
6. 06 - Antiquity and Character of the Pyramid Civilization — 10:01
7. 07 - Labour was Squandered on the Pyramids because it could not be bottled up — 23:38
8. 08 - The Great Pyramid looks down on the Cataract of Philæ — 3:43
9. 09 - The Wooden Statue in the Boulak Museum — 5:57
10. 10 - Date of Building with Stone — 18:37
11. 11 - Going to the Top of the Great Pyramid — 11:51
12. 12 - Luncheon at the Pyramids. Kêf — 7:51
13. 13 - Abydos — 13:20
14. 14 - The Faioum — 21:40
15. 15 - Heliopolis — 12:18
16. 16 - Thebes—Luxor and Karnak — 17:07
17. 17 - Thebes—The Necropolis — 19:44
18. 18 - Thebes—The Temple-Palaces — 17:59
19. 19 - Rameses the Great goes forth from Egypt — 15:41
20. 20 - Germanicus at Thebes — 6:06
21. 21 - Moses’s Wife — 3:06
22. 22 - Egyptian Donkey-boys — 13:07
23. 23 - Scarabs — 9:32
24. 24 - Egyptian Belief in a Future Life — 19:17

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