Gulliver's Reizen naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag

A learned physician from modest English roots, he spends his youth in Cambridge, then apprentices under a London surgeon while gathering enough funds to study medicine in Leiden. After a stint as a ship’s doctor on voyages to the Levant, he settles briefly in London, marries, and tries to build a practice among the seafaring community. Dissatisfied with the slow fortunes on shore, he rejoins the crew of a new expedition bound for the South Seas, eager for fresh horizons.

The journey turns disastrous when a ferocious storm drives the vessel onto a remote, mist‑shrouded coast. Clinging to life, he swims to safety and finds himself on an unfamiliar shore inhabited by people no taller than a thumb. Captured by these diminutive citizens, he is thrust into a world where ordinary objects become towering obstacles, and his every move is observed with a mixture of curiosity and caution.