1 Chapter : 1 Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels Introduction to Jonathan Swift and his age : Jonathan Swift was born of English parents in Dublin in 1667. Unfortunately his father died before his birth and they had to depend on the financial aid they received from relatives.
At 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara, which is Arabic for The Great Desert, engulfs most of North Africa. The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.This is the image many people have of the Sahara: a vast sea of sand dunes.The terrain is actually quite varied.alf of the Sahara receives less than an inch of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) per year. The infrequent rain is usually torrential. The highest peak in the Sahara is the volcano Emi Koussi (11,204 feet or 3,415 meters) in the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad.
0 Votes. Well to begin with, the Sahara is the largest desert in the world (outside of the poles). It stretches over a vast part of northern African practically splitting the continent in half. Although it is a very hot and dry placeâreceiving less than 3 inches of rain a yearâit is speckled with oases. Votes. The Sahara is one of the largest deserts in the world and occupies almost 10% of the African continent. Almost all of the Sahara receives little rainfall, thus it is very hard for many species of plant and animal to survive there. The soil is mostly rock and sand, with some vegetation.