Life of Pi : a novel
Title:
Life of Pi : a novel
Author:
Martel, Yann.
ISBN:
9780544045200
Publication Information:
Boston : Mariner Books, c2001.
Physical Description:
xi, 401 p. ; 18 cm
Abstract:
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
| Shipwreck survival -- Fiction. |
| Survival at sea -- Fiction. |
| Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. |
| Storytelling -- Fiction. |
| Teenage boys -- Fiction. |
| Ocean travel -- Fiction. |
| Zoo animals -- Fiction. |
| Orphans -- Fiction. |
| Tiger -- Fiction. |
| Pacific Ocean -- Fiction. |
Summary:
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.