Life of Pi : a novel
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Life of Pi : a novel
AUTHOR:
Martel, Yann.
ISBN:
9780857865540
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Canongate, 2012.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xvi, 428 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. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.