Brobdingnag a particular strength. Printing has been long known but libraries are relatively small. The king has the largest library, which contains about one thousand volumes. The Brobdingnagians favour a clear literary style. On Mars's largest moon, Phobos, the crater Grildrig has the name given to Gulliver by the farmer's daughter Glumdalclitch in Brobdingnag, because of Swift's 'prediction' of the two then undiscovered Martian moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling
Gulliver's Travels Daniel Defoe's wildly successful "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability. In "The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man", Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement of Thomas Hobbes' radical political philosophy and for this reason Gulliver repeatedly encounters established societies rather than desolate islands. The captain who invites Gulliver to serve as a surgeon aboard his ship on the disastrous