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Gulliver begins his first journey in 1699 and, after a storm at sea, he finds himself in a country called Lilliput, where the people are only fifteen centimetres tall. He finally escapes and goes home, but soon leaves on another journey – to Brobdingnag, then to Laputa and Luggnagg, and last, to the even stranger country of the Houyhnhnms …

As a young man, Gulliver is proud of being human, and proud of his own country, England. When he travels through these strange lands, talking to giants, and magicians, and horses, at first he laughs at their extraordinary ideas and strange opinions. But as the years pass, he begins to wonder and to ask himself questions … ‘Why do we human beings fight wars, lie, cheat, steal, and kill each other? Isn’t there a better way to live?’