Best Loved Classics Gulliver's Travels Author:Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels - Voyage to Lilliput - The auther gives some accounts of himself and family--his first inducements to travel-he is shipwrecked, and swims for his life-gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput-is made a prisoner, and carried up the country. — My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He ... more »sent me to Emanuel Collecge in Cambride, at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then sending me small sums o money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel...« less