Egyptian Government Views of Typical Desert Scenery in Egypt

Abstract

THIS album of views of typical desert scenery in Egypt was prepared at the desire of His Majesty King Îouad I for presentation to the International Geographical Congress at Paris in 1931. The selection, arrangement, and descriptions of the photographs are the work of Dr. W. F. Hume and the present director of the Geological Survey, Mr. O. H. Little. The plates, some of which include up to five figures, measure 20 in. by 14 in. they have been executed in sepia by the rotary photogravure process, and in them the varied scenery of the Egyptian deserts with their high mountains, broad valleys, wind-swept plateaux and vast areas of sand, is magnificently portrayed. The popular impression of the deserts as broad flat expanses of sand stretching away from the Nile valley in monotonous uniformity is speedily corrected by this fascinating album, which is designed to bring out the great variety of the features displayed by a wilderness where in many places geological structures and geographical contrasts are to be seen on a strikingly conspicuous scale.

Egyptian Government. Views of Typical Desert Scenery in Egypt.

Prepared by the Geological Survey of Egypt. Presented to the International Geographical Congress at Paris 1931, by Command of His Majesty King Fouad I. Pp. xiv + 34 plates. (Giza: Survey of Egypt, 1931.)