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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]
Gulliver himself, in their company, builds the sails of his skiff from "Yahoo skins". The Houyhnhnms' lack of passion surfaces during the scheduled visit of "a friend and his family" to the home of Gulliver's master "upon some affair of importance". On the day of the visit, the mistress of his friend and her children arrive very late.
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 ...
The Adventures of Gulliver is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The show is loosely based on the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The show aired Saturday mornings on ABC-TV and lasted for one season in its original broadcast. [2] Flirtacia appeared in the third season of Jellystone!.
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver is a 1960 American Eastmancolor fantasy adventure film loosely based upon the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The film stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character , June Thorburn as his fiancée Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch .
Gulliver Returns is a 2021 animated comedy film produced by 95 Animation Studio and Gulliver Films. Based on an original idea by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Borys and Serhiy Shefir, and Andriy Yakovlev, it is directed by Ilya Maksimov, with a screenplay by Michael Ryan. The film is a loose adaptation of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Map showing Japan, with Luggnagg, Balnibarbi and other lands to the east (original map, Pt III, Gulliver's Travels) Japan is referred to in Gulliver's Travels, the 1726 satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. Part III of the book has the account of Lemuel Gulliver's visit to Japan, the only real location visited by him. It is used as a venue for ...
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.