[Jonathan Swift]

Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver

London: Printed for Beng. Motte, 1726

NYPL, Rare Books Division

Straddling many literary genres, including travel narrative, political satire, and fiction, Gulliver’s Travels invites its readers on a journey through, among other places, the kingdoms of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Houyhnhnmland, pointing out the virtues and vices of each strange new place and contrasting them with the England of Swift’s day. Among the Houyhnhnms, a society of horses for whom reason is the guiding principle, Gulliver believes he has found the ideal society. Because of his resemblance to the Yahoos (a group of human-like animals governed only by their passions and detested by the Houyhnhnms), Gulliver is forced to leave and returns to England. This map of Brobdingnag locates this fictional country off the coast of what is now the state of Washington.

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