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 keeping the Giants away from Earth above the need to get his people home. At the end of those episodes, he destroys devices that would get the "Spindrift" back to Earth but which would probably enable the Giants to journey there too. Episodes often have the Giants capturing one of the passengers or crew, with the rest having to effect a rescue. The Earth people avoid capture most of the time, because their spaceship is hidden in a wood (in several episodes, described by the Giants as a park) outside the city limits. They also occasionally form alliances with individual