• 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 71

    23-05-31 Chapter 71 To those who should ever find themselves in a predicament such as I was in, I would recommend the following program: 1. Choose a day when the waves are small but regular. You want a sea that will put on a good show when your lifeboat is b...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 70

    23-05-31 Chapter 70 Butchering a turtle was hard work. My first one was a small hawksbill. It was its blood that tempted me, the good, nutritious, salt-free drink promised by the survival manual. My thirst was that bad. I took hold of the turtles shell and g...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 69

    23-05-31 Chapter 69 On many nights I was convinced I saw a light in the distance. Each time I set off a flare. When I had used up the rocket flares, I expended the hand flares. Were they ships that failed to see me? The light of rising or setting stars bounc...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 68

    23-05-31 Chapter 68 My sleep pattern changed. Though I rested all the time, I rarely slept longer than an hour or so at a stretch, even at night. It was not the ceaseless motion of the sea that disturbed me, nor the wind; you get used to those the way you ge...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 67

    23-05-31 Chapter 67 The underside of the raft became host to a multitude of sea life, like the net but smaller in form. It started with a soft green algae that clung to the life jackets. Stiffer algae of a darker kind joined it. They did well and became thic...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 66

    23-05-31 Chapter 66 I fished with a variety of hooks at a variety of depths for a variety of fish, from deep-sea fishing with large hooks and many sinkers to surface fishing with smaller hooks and only one or two sinkers. Success was slow to come, and when i...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 65

    23-05-31 Chapter 65 I spent hours trying to decipher the lines in the survival manual on navigation. Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were given in abundance, but a basic knowledge of seafaring was assumed by the author of the manual. The...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 64

    23-05-31 Chapter 64 My clothes disintegrated, victims of the sun and the salt. First they became gauze-thin. Then they tore until only the seams were left. Lastly, the seams broke. For months I lived stark naked except for the whistle that dangled from my ne...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 63

    23-05-31 Chapter 63 The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea. Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty and his fellow castaways survived forty-seven days. Steven Callahan survived seventy-six. Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of...

  • 少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 62

    23-05-31 Chapter 62 I slept in fits that night. Shortly before sunrise I gave up trying to fall asleep again and lifted myself on an elbow. I spied with my little eye a tiger. Richard Parker was restless. He was moaning and growling and pacing about the life...