After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

An epic account of the eighteen loyal men who, in the aftermath of the Mutiny on the Bounty, are set adrift on the high seas in a 23-foot open launch with Captain Bligh at the helm. Alone on uncharted waters, the men struggle to survive on scant rations, taking pains to avoid war canoes and inhabited islands under cover of night. Their 3,600 mile voyage from the island of Tofoa in the friendly Archipelago to the Dutch East Indies remains to this...