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Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver , visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course.
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.
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.
Cape Blanco is also noted on a map of Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels, as well as mentioned in Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: "And that harpoon-so like a corkscrew now-was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco."
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Africa: Africa is portrayed as one country in various works, typically comprising an expansive and sparsely-populated jungle or savanna. [1]African Confederation: Future African country that includes present-day Somalia, that is the birthplace of Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sovonthak: April Fools joke by Geography Now, formerly called Vascodam Republic Tuluwan : A country featured in the same Ministry of Defence workshop as Dacan, lying to the southeast of that country. Tuluwan is described as being subject to a United Nations peacekeeping mission at the time of the scenario presented during the workshop, with the ...
Birdwell Island: de facto independent island community in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series similar in geography and custom to an islands off of the east coast of the United States. Fröland: Island in the North Sea in the Dutch TV series Fröland - country? Islandia: self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel Islandia