GULLIVERÕS TRAVELS

GULLIVERÕS TRAVELSLemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps enroute to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies. Gulliver sets off on his first adventure where he encounters a mysterious storm. The storm destroys the ship, leaving Gulliver as the sole survivor of the wreck. Gulliver awakes to find that he has been captured by Lilliputians,

Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps enroute to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies. Gulliver sets off on his first adventure where he encounters a mysterious storm. The storm destroys the ship, leaving Gulliver as the sole survivor of the wreck. Gulliver awakes to find that he has been captured by Lilliputians, very small people only a few inches in height. Gulliver is treated with compassion and concern. In turn, Gulliver helps them solve some of their problems. Gulliver returns home, and then sets out on three more adventures to Brobdingnag populated by giants, The island of Laputa where he is taken to the Laputans' city in the sky. Gulliver returns home, he is offered the chance to captain a voyage, so he sets off again. Gulliver's crew mutinies and leaves him on an island populated by intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms and primitive humans called Yahoos. Gulliver fears the Yahoos and finds camaraderie with the Houyhnhnms, although the Houyhnhnms never fully accept Gulliver because they believe he, too, is a Yahoo.