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Travels and Benjamin
* The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His " Travels Through Life " Together with his Commonplace Book for 1789-1813, 1970 reprint: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-8371-3037-9
Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple, he would use Tooke for both the fifth edition of the Tale ( 1710 ) and later works, and it was Tooke's successor, Benjamin Motte, who published Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
* Travels of a Latter-Day Benjamin of Tudela.
He described his years abroad in a book, The Travels of Benjamin ( מסעות בנימין, Masa ' ot Binyamin, also known as ספר המסעות, Sefer ha-Masa ' ot, The Book of Travels ).
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages.
His extraordinary parody of the picaresque, Kitser masoes Binyomen hashlishi (" The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third "), published in 1878, was his last great work and provides one of his strongest critiques of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement.
Early publications of Gulliver's Travels, including those by Benjamin Motte and George Faulkner, did not include the passage relating to Lindalino, for fear of political reprisal.
* The Travels of Benjamin the Third by Ala Zuskin-Perelman ( the daughter of Benjamin Zuskin and Eda Berkovsky ) with photos, review

Travels and is
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.
Eos is the daughter of Hyperion, a bringer of light, the One Above, Who Travels High Above the Earth and of Theia, The Divine.
However, the earliest European reference to the kora in Western literature is in Travels in Interior Districts of Africa ( 1799 ) by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.
* In book 4 of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the name of the Houyhnhnms is an onomatopoeia for the whinny of a horse.
* In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ( 1726 ), the country of Lilliput is described as being “ to the north-west of Van Dieman's Land ”.
A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift.
Marco Polo is one of the prisoners taken, and while in prison in Genoa, he begins dictating his Travels to a local writer.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is sometimes linked with utopian ( and dystopian ) literature, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of the good ( and bad ) society.
The setting is borrowed in part from Mandeville's Travels.
The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Jonathan Swift is widely believed to be misanthropic ( see A Tale of a Tub and, most especially, Book IV of Gulliver's Travels ).
Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work, and critics have traditionally responded to the subject of whether Gulliver is insane ( and therefore just another victim of Swift's satire ) or not by questioning whether or not the Houyhnhnms are truly admirable.
Laputa is a fictional place from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
The Travels of Marco Polo, where Polo records his journey along the Silk Road, describes Samarkand as a " a very large and splendid city ..." Here also is related the story of a Christian church in Samarkand, which miraculously remained standing after a portion of its central supporting column was removed.
There is one named regio, Laputa Regio, and one named planitia, Lagado Planitia ; both are named after places in Gulliver's Travels ( the fictional Laputa, a flying island, and Lagado, imaginary capital of the fictional nation Balnibarbi ).
* Tailors ' Rule of Thumb: This is the fictional rule described by Jonathan Swift in his satirical novel Gulliver's Travels:
* In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( Part III ), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.
Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges.
The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.
The mistake in question is a pretentious number called Sullivan's Travels.
The sequence in Sullivan's Travels is a step in that direction and I want you to know how grateful we are.
* In the television show Numb3rs, season 4, episode 16, " Atomic No. 33 " ( May 2, 2008 ), Special Agent Don Eppes reveals that his favorite film is not Heat but rather Sullivan's Travels.

Travels and important
In John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, he learns an important lesson in a little restaurant just outside of Bangor.
Probably his most important work, published posthumously, is his Travels in New England and New York ( 4 vols., 1821 – 1822 ).
Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.
His book A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory was an important account of frontier life.
His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Xian of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline.
Star Travels is an important private road transport terminal situated on Sheikhupura road.
His most valuable works include the Bengal Atlas ( 1779 ), the first approximately correct map of India ( 1783 ), the Geographical System of Herodotus ( 1800 ), the Comparative Geography of Western Asia ( 1831 ), and important studies on the geography of northern Africa — apparent in introductions to the Travels of Mungo Park and Hornemann.
In the area there are important commercial brands, like Option Multiservices and Vavila Travels.
It is important, however, to recognize that Oroonoko is a work of fiction and that its first-person narrator — the protagonist — need be no more factual than Jonathan Swift's first-person narrator, ostensibly Gulliver, in Gulliver's Travels, Daniel Defoe's shipwrecked narrator in Robinson Crusoe, or the first-person narrator of A Tale of a Tub.
Today, the Drapier's Letters are an important part of Swift's political writings, along with Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ), and A Modest Proposal ( 1729 ).

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