The Floating Island (Head novel)

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The Floating Island is a 1673 satirical novel by Richard Head, though he published it under the name of Frank Careless. It is a parody of adventure fiction, describing the travels of captain Robert Owe-much through distant lands, which reference various neighbourhoods of London. The character of Captain Robert Owe-much appears in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a member of Prospero's Men, a seventeenth century League.{{cite book|author=Jonathan Scott|title=When the Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmIni2XZMxAC&pg=PA102|date=24 February 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49993-4|page=102}}