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).
Here are some of the Sahara Desert Important Facts which are worth exploring. The Sahara Desert stretches from 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 km2) southward to about 17Â° north of the Equator. The Sahara is one of the hottest places on Earth and the Sahara Desert Temperatures may rise to 136 F (57.7 C). As the world's largest desert, the Sahara receives less than three inches (7.6 cm) of rain a year. Even the scarcity of water and high temperatures one can witness a varied and typical kind of the Flora & Fauna in the Sahara.