Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) is a brilliant work of imagination, a socio-political satire, and a perennial classic. Of all the fantastic adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and world traveler, probably the best known one is his journey to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, where he is a giant. But here the reader can become acquainted with the rest of his equally remarkable journeys, including Brobdingnag, the land of giants, Laputa, the island in the air, the country of Houyhnhnms, the horse people, and, of course, the proverbial Yahoos.