One character in this work is criticized for not keeping up his estate, despite the fact that his is the only well-kept area surrounded by barren fields.  
One character in this work is criticized for not keeping up his estate, despite the fact that his is the only well-kept area surrounded by barren fields.  That character, Munodi, would also encourage the protagonist of this work to visit a university where one professor attempts to teach students math by having them eat wafers with mathematical proofs on them and one man writes a paper on the malleability of fire.  The protagonist later discovers that Alexander the Great died of excessive drinking and watches Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes describe their philosophies to Aristotle.  That protagonist would later be forced to leave one land when he bathes in a river and the horse-like rulers of that land see that he looks like a Yahoo.  For 10 points—name this work containing the lands of Laputa, Houyhnhnm, Brobdignag and Lilliput, a novel by Jonathan Swift.
One character in this work is criticized for not keeping up his estate, despite the fact that his is the only well-kept area surrounded by barren fields.  
Gulliver's Travels