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...Excerpt: Of all the spots on the world?s surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most unpleasant, and the least interesting. There are no women there, no water, and no vegetation. It is surrounded, and indeed often filled, by a world of ...

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...lope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication George Walker at Suez by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. George Walker at Suez by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Anthony Trollope George Walker At Suez by Anthony Trollope Of all the spots on the world’s surface that I, Ge... ...urface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most u... ...one day of that week, which lends a sort of halo not only to my sojourn at Suez, but to the whole period of my residence in Egypt. I am free to confes... ...Bartholomew’s who dined with them twice at the Albion; 4 George Walker at Suez nor would they have gone to work directly that my back was turned, and... ... may, I was frightened and went to Cairo, and while there I made a trip to Suez for a week. I was not happy at Cairo, for I knew nobody there, and the... ... for Australia had reached Cairo that morning, and were to be passed on to Suez as soon as the railway would take them, and did not therefore ex- pect... ...om their brethren on their return. But I have to tell of my own triumph at Suez, and must therefore hasten on to say that on turning round quickly wit...

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... Pacific crossings by steamer. Volume II, which I hope to record later, continues his experiences in Japan and India, returning home via Aden and the Suez Canal. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)...

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...tion, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers comporte plusieurs épisodes qui témoignent de l'imagination de son auteur : le Nautilus passe sous le canal de Suez avant sa percée officielle, et sous l'Antarctique, dont on ignorait à l'époque qu'il s'agissait d'un continent et non de glace flottante, comme l'Arctique. On notera avec curiosité que L'Île mystérieuse (autre roman de J...

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...ica, inoltre, stava cambiando anche per la prossima apertura del canale di Suez e i porti duosiciliani avrebbero avuto una posizione strategica, tenut...

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...del cabo. Pero, dominando todos estos hechos, viene la apertura del Istmo de Suez, que ha suprimido instantáneamente la vuelta de los cabos de Buen... ...un hombre de Estado. ¿Pero quién pudo prever en 1842 la apertura del Canal de Suez, que ha cambiado la faz del mundo? ¿Quién, el ferrocarril interoc... ...ercados lucrativos. Recuerda las vías de la India por el entonces istmo de Suez y la de las costas del Pacífico por el de Panamá, así como: (.... ...derecho de gentes es hacer neutrales los estrechos, mares, canales como el de Suez y todo punto necesario al libre comercio. El Estrecho de Magallan...

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...ovatore (1853) and La Traviata (1853) - brought him international acclaim. When the Suez canal was completed, the Khedive of Egypt commissioned Aida...

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... * * * * Before they left for India, this time by the shorter sea route of the newly- constructed Suez Canal, Gavin took Helen to Kashmir once more. ...

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...ook. This is the second of two volumes and covers his experiences in Japan, India and other parts of south-east Asia, returning home via Aden and the Suez Canal. The /east-by-west-vol-i-by-henry-w-lucy/ first volume included his travels in America and in Japan, including the Atlantic and Pacific crossings by steamer. Note: In Chapter 6, Lucy understandably, to a readership...

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...nly land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean; siz... ...iro Waterway, the Ismailia Canal, and numerous smaller canals in the Delta); Suez Canal, 162 km long, used by ocean- going vessels drawing up to 16.1 ... ... by ocean- going vessels drawing up to 16.1 meters of water Freight carried: Suez Canal 257.6 mil- lion metric tons, of which 94 million metric tons w... ...products, 596 km; natural gas, 460 km Ports: 4 major (Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Bur Safajah); 15 minor; 9 petroleum, oil, and lubricant terminals C... ...e great leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through Persian Gulf and Suez Canal Population: 14,904,794 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth ra... ...ica along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal 221 Somalia (continued) Population: 7,741,859 (July 1987), av...

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... one ninth of its GDP. Add to that the effects of armed conflict on traffic in the Suez Canal, on investments and on expat remittances - and the co...

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...ured articles. A city called Arsinoe was at that time located where the modern Suez stands, and this place was a great port of entry for vessels passi... ...nued ovation. Stops were made at various ports in Japan, China, and India; the Suez Canal was passed through and pauses were indulged in at several po...

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...discovered, picked detectives has- tened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward... ... opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily T elegraph: From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. ... ...t Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .....................13 “ From Bombay to Calcu... ...e evening, when the following telegraphic dispatch was put into his hands: Suez to London. Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard: I’ve found th... ...power, was due at eleven o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez. The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez... ...he company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay. Two men were promenading... ... prise of M. Lesseps, a fast-growing town. One was the Brit- ish consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the En- glish Government, and the unfa... ...k robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore ... ... can’t be far off now,” returned his companion. “How long will she stop at Suez?” “Four hours; long enough to get in her coal. It is thirteen hundred ...

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...d Land, “that the Red Sea is as much closed as the Gulf, as the Isthmus of Suez is not yet cut; and, if it was, a boat as mysterious as ours would not... ...ion of Aden. There were too many English or French steamers of the line of Suez to Bombay, Calcutta to Melbourne, and from Bourbon to the Mauritius, f... ...e, and must have been, numerous. But in our time, steamers running between Suez and the South Seas have nothing more to fear from the fury of this gul... ...nd the spot?” I asked. “The spot is situated a little above the Isthmus of Suez, in the arm which formerly made a deep estuary, when the Red Sea exten... ...en new towns are established on the isthmus, after the construction of the Suez Canal; a ca- nal, however, very useless to a vessel like the Nautilus.... ..., your General Bonaparte discov- ered traces of the works in the Desert of Suez; and, sur- prised by the tide, he nearly perished before regaining Had... ...just spoken. “Unfortunately,” he continued, “I cannot take you through the Suez Canal; but you will be able to see the long jetty of Port Said after t... ...ranean passage, which I have named the Arabian Tunnel. It takes us beneath Suez and opens into the Gulf of Pelusium.” “But this isthmus is composed of... ...erence of level. I caught a large number of fishes in the neighbourhood of Suez. I passed a copper ring through their tails, and threw them back into ...

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...es drink pale ale, which, perhaps, accounts for it; in fact the Bombay and Suez passengers have just arrived, and hence this crowding and bustling, an... ...p all of a sudden at its edge. Y ou can see the first Station-house on the Suez Road; and so from distance- point to point, could ride thither alone w... ...y travel, our countrymen guard against it well. The road between Cairo and Suez is jonche with soda-water corks. 149 Thackeray Tom Thumb and his brot...

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...at is in it has lost its charm for me. I am going home as passenger by the Suez Canal.” 65 Joseph Conrad “Everything that is in it,” he repeated angr...

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...th- ing could rob him of this kind of fame. The piercing of the Isthmus of Suez, like the breaking of a dam, had let in upon the East a flood of new s... ...urse; and by- and-by a squad of confounded German tramps turned up east of Suez Canal and swept up all the crumbs. They prowled on the cheap to and fr...

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...oyal a subject of the complex British Empire as you could find east of the Suez Canal. World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great o...

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...e Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Arabian Sea: But it’s hot—too hot from Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go In a P. and 0. And ca...

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...ther in Australia or it may be on the passage while going home through the Suez Canal. I am not sure which it was now, and I do not think I ever heard...

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...ther in Australia or it may be on the passage while going home through the Suez Canal. I am not sure which it was now, and I do not think I ever heard...

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...f the man with a sharp glance, and made up his mind. “We are going back by Suez,” he began almost boister- ously. “I have been looking up the sailing ...

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...rsian Gulf, beheld in due course the high and barren coasts of the Gulf of Suez, and this was the limit of his wanderings westward. He was then twenty...

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..., except as water on the way to India. But Britten had come up through the Suez Canal, and his ship had spoken a pil- grim ship on the way. It gave hi...

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.... So we agreed to go round the world in opposite directions. I started for Suez on the day she sailed for New Yo r k . MRS. LUNN [suddenly becoming at...

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...greener land! On the road to Mandalay . . . Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren’t no Ten Commandme...

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...far away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca! You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab el mandeb ruling your families and tribes! You olive grower t... ...iumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn b... ...onders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World the east the Suez canal, The New by its mighty railroad spann’d, The seas inlaid with ... ... 3 Passage to India! Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain, I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open’d, I see the procession of steamships, the Emp...

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...er, greener land! On the road to Mandalay … Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren’t no Ten Commandme...

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...y the conduct of Lord Palmerston at that particular time in oppos ing the Suez Canal; and I took the opportunity of expressing ideas which had long b...

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... to the southward, nearly at right angles to the road across the desert to Suez, and after having travelled some ten miles up a low barren val- ley, c...

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...me creed prevails amongst the Arabs, from Bagdad to 253 Thomas de Quincey Suez and Cairo—from Rosetta to Tunis—Tunis to Timbuctoo or Mequinez. ‘If, d...