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).
It is the third largest desert in the world and also the hottest. The borders of the Sahara Desert include the Red Sea on the east, the valley of the Niger River and the Sudan on the south, the Mediterranean and the Atlas Mountains on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.he Sahara Desert is the third largest in the world. The first two are Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara Desert covers 3.6 million square miles. It is almost the same size as the United States or China.