Daniel Defoe 
The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon 

‘The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon’ by Daniel Defoe is a satirical novel that mixes fantasy with political and social satire. The narrator travels to the Moon through the means of the titular ‘consolidator’ – a chariot with two feathered winged creatures. The novel is a political satire of the British political and society of Defoe’s era. For example, each of the chariot’s winged steeds represents a houses of parliament.