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.
The correct term is the Sahara; which is Arabic for desert. The desert is found in Africa north of the equator, and stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. It is the world's largest hot desert.t is also the biggest hot desert in the world. However, it is the second biggest desert, as Antarctica is the biggest desert (but a cold desert). Some parts of the Sahara are sandy with giant dunes, while other areas are gravel plains, rock plateaus and mountains (only 3/8th of the Sahara Desert is sand).
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.