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A ship's surgeon named Lemuel Gulliver narrates four voyages to remote lands in Jonathan Swift's satire on human nature and parody of travellers' tales. After a shipwreck he washes ashore in Lilliput, where people less than six inches tall take him prisoner and quarrel over trivial matters, such as which end of an egg to crack. Later voyages leave him among the giants of Brobdingnag, on the flying island of Laputa with its impractical scholars, and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, rational horses who share their country with brutish humanlike Yahoos. Swift satirizes the politics and culture of his time. Since its 1726 debut the novel has been adapted for stage, film, television and radio.
Neil deGrasse Tyson put it on his list of books every intelligent person should read, for its satirical lesson that humans are, most of the time, Yahoos.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist, Author & Science Communicator)
Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on planet? [...] Gulliver's Travels (Swift) [to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos]. If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.
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