"About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad" by Charles Thomas-Stanford. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Charles Thomas-Stanford. About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad
About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
I—ARABY’S DAUGHTER
II—THE CORSAIR CITY
III—NEW ROADS AND OLD CITIES
IV—A GARDEN AND SOME BUILDINGS
V—SWORD AND PLOUGH
VI—TLEMÇEN THE HOLY
VII—THE CITY OF PRECIPICES
VIII—THE ALLURING OASIS
IX—THE SAHARA
X—TIMGAD
XI—A PUBLIC LIBRARY
XII—THE ROAD THROUGH KHABYLIA
INDEX
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Charles Thomas-Stanford
Published by Good Press, 2022
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If the true Arabs only represent a fraction of the total Mohammedan population, variously estimated at a third and a sixth, they have imposed on the remainder their language, their religion, their institutions, and their customs, with the result that in a sense all are Arabs, though not of race. The pure-bred Arab is of an aristocratic type—tall, thin, muscular, and of dignified carriage. His narrow and retreating forehead indicates no great brain power; this feature is sometimes so marked as to give an aspect of semi-idiocy.
A rigorous childhood ensures the survival of the fittest; the Arab children are left to themselves, naked in heat and cold, in sun and rain and frost, and only the hardiest reach manhood. The result is seen in the finely tempered physique of the race, in the Arab’s extraordinary powers of endurance, and in his disregard of hardship and suffering. Whole tribes are infected with what are called the diseases of civilization; typhus and smallpox sometimes blaze like a flame among them; the Arab scorns precaution or cure, and lives or dies with indifference.
