The Magic of Oz

Country of the Wheelers

also Wheeler Country

The Country of the Wheelers is a sandy waste between the Nonestic Ocean and the Nome Country.

First named in Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 17

The Country of the Wheelers is a sandy waste that is open on one side to the Nonestic Ocean and on the other side has no barrier to separate it from the Nome Country, therefore it was on the coast of the Wheelers that King Gos landed--in a spot quite deserted by any of the curious inhabitants of that country.

Where this is

  • placed Beyond the desert worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    Described as a sandy waste 'open on one side to the Nonestic Ocean and on the other side... the Nome Country' — outside Oz.

Names in the books

  • called Wheeler Country 2 chapters

    Rinkitink in Oz1823

  • called Country of the Wheelers 1 chapter

    Rinkitink in Oz17

What the books say it is

  • region between the Nonestic Ocean and the Nome Country 1 chapter
    • The Country of the Wheelers is a sandy waste that is open on one side to the Nonestic Ocean and on the other side has no barrier to separate it from the Nome Country,
      Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 17
  • appearance a sandy waste 1 chapter
    • The Country of the Wheelers is a sandy waste that is open on one side to the Nonestic Ocean and on the other side has no barrier to separate it from the Nome Country,
      Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 17

Appearances

Rinkitink in Oz (2 of 24 chapters)

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