Whenever Gulliver steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him: He is marooned, abandoned, mutinied, and - last but not least - shipwrecked ...! Each time he lands in a strange and curious world. First he discovers the kingdom of the six-inch-tall "Lilliputians". The second adventure leads him to the country of the giant "Brobdingnagians". Then he explores the island of the academic "Laputans", which floats in the sky. And finally he gets in contact with the noble realm of the horselike "Houyhnhnms." The novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift is a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers' tales literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.