Glumdalclitch Glumdalclitch Glumdalclitch is the name Gulliver gives his "nurse" in Book II of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". In Book I, Gulliver travels to the land of Lilliput. Leaving there, he travels to the land of Brobdingnag. In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant, and in Brobdingnag, he is a dwarf, with the proportions reversed. When he comes ashore, he is captured by a giant farmer, who perceives Gulliver only as an animal, a freak of nature resembling a man-shaped mouse. He takes Gulliver home and gives him to his nine-year-old daughter, a child "not above forty feet high, being little for
Land of the Giants the aired pilot, or a special setup for the View Master photographers. In 1968, Pyramid Books published an extended novel adaptation of the pilot ("Land of the Giants", Pyramid Books, X-1846), written by famed author Murray Leinster. Among notable changes or inventions is that the Spindrift is still an operational, flying ship after the initial crash, with enough "atomic power" to last as much as several months. Another invention for the novel is the knowledge that two other ships, the "Anne" and "Marintha", disappeared via the same mysterious phenomenon that sends the "Spindrift" to the giants' planet. The "Spindrift" castaways