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  2. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

  3. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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    Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.

  4. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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    Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either / ˈ h uː ɪ n əm / or / ˈ hw ɪ n əm /. [1] Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

  5. Brobdingnag - Wikipedia

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    The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The land is the subject of James Gillray's satirical hand-coloured etching and aquatint print, titled The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag. [13]

  6. Lemuel Gulliver - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy reused Gulliver as the protagonist of two novels recounting his further travels, Voyage to Faremido (1916) and Capillaria (1921). Both stay true to the character as a surgeon with a wife and children, but transpose their plot (and retroactively Gulliver's four earlier travels) to the then-contemporary years leading up to, during, and after World War I.

  7. Japan in Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Japan is shown on the map at the beginning of part III, [1] which also shows the island of "Yesso" (i.e. Hokkaido), "Stats island" and "Companys Land" to the north.. The map also marks the Vries Strait and Cape Patience, though this is shown on the northeast coast of Yesso, rather than as part of Sakhalin, which was little-known in Swift’s t

  8. Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels (known in some markets as Ted Danson's Gulliver's Travels) is an American-British TV miniseries based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel of the same name, produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment. This miniseries is notable for being one of the very few adaptations of Swift's novel to feature all ...

  9. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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    The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4] The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads. Yahoo was used as a cry of elation in a song from the 1961 Hindi film Junglee. [5]

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