Gulliver's Travels is a novel by Jonathan Swift about Gulliver's adventures in four different places with several people and various creatures. It is a satire on corruptions in Britain's such institutions as parliament, government and religion. It also attacks the professions of medicine, law, science and even human nature itself in a critical and humorous way. Through Gulliver's Travels has been read as a children's book for a long time, it is, in fact, a harsh criticism on the British colonial mind, foreign relations and politics.