In which a learned English surgeon recounts his early life and voyages at sea before a dreadful shipwreck casts him ashore the strange land of Lilliput, where he finds himself bound and beset by a multitude of minute but intrepid inhabitants. Though initially objectified and restrained, he is courteously tended to by these diminutive people, who employ ingenious devices and great numbers to convey and confine him near their capital.