Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.

Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.

"This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, in 1957"--Title page verso.

When the Pirates, a gang of young boys in the small town of Timpetill, become too rowdy, the adults decide to discipline them by leaving the town in the middle of the night.

On a voyage in the South Seas, an Englishman finds himself shipwrecked in Lilliput, a land of people only six inches high.