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.
The Sahara Desert, located in North Africa, marks itself as the largest desert in the world by covering more than 3.5 million square miles. Many countries bordering the Sahara experience extreme heat during the summer because of the arid vastness of the Sahara. It can also turn bitterly cold at night. The Sahara Desert is a dry, sandy and arid wasteland. The highest point of the Sahara is Mount Koussi, which is more than 11,000 feet above sea level. At its lowest point, in Egypt, the Sahara is more than 400 feet below sea level.