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).
The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and hottest regions of the world, with a mean temperature sometimes over 30 Â°C (86 Â°F) and the averages high temperatures in summer are over 40 Â°C (104 Â°F) and can even soar to 47 Â°C (116.6 Â°F) and often for over 3 months.he Sahara Desert ecoregion, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18Â° and 30Â° N. It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent.