"number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for ""Life of Pi"". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except"
"sort of with a capital 'S' – something that would direct my life."" He spoke of being lonely and needing direction in his life, and found that writing the novel met this need. The name of Martel's tiger, Richard Parker, was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"" (1838). In this book, Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship (and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger). The author also had in mind another occurrence"
"ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America. Richard Parker is a royal Bengal tiger who is stranded on the lifeboat with Pi when the ship sinks. Richard Parker lives on the lifeboat with Pi and is kept alive with the food and water Pi delivers. Richard Parker develops a relationship with Pi that allows them to coexist in their struggle. In the novel, a hunter named Richard Parker is hired to kill a panther thought to have killed seven people within two months. Instead, he accidentally immobilizes a female Bengal tiger with"
"Beatrice and Virgil Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust. It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader. Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a taxidermist, who introduces him to the play's protagonists, two taxidermy animals—Beatrice, a donkey, and Virgil, a monkey. ""The Globe and Mail"" reported that Martel received a $2 million advance from Random House for U.S. rights alone, and that the total advance for worldwide rights"
"of the name, in the famous legal case R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) where a shipwreck again results in the cannibalism of a cabin boy named Richard Parker, this time in a lifeboat. A third Richard Parker drowned in the sinking of the ""Francis Spaight"" in 1846, described by author Jack London, and later the cabin boy (not Richard Parker) was cannibalized. Having read about these events, Yann Martel thought, ""So many victimized Richard Parkers had to mean something."" Martel has mentioned that a book review he read of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novella ""Max and the Cats"""
"Lord Tyger Lord Tyger is an American novel by Philip José Farmer. Originally released in 1970, the book is a metafictional pastiche of one of Farmer's favorite subjects, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Ras Tyger has lived in the jungle for as long as he can remember. Raised by apes, he lives an idyllic existence as the lord of the jungle, gleefully hunting prey and feeding his prodigious sexual appetite with various female denizens of his jungle. Eventually, however, Tyger begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. He sees strange giant birds, black and without movement aside from"
"""The Tale of Mr. Tod"" (1912; featuring badger Tommy Brock), the Rupert Bear adventures by Mary Tourtel (appearing since 1920), T. H. White's Arthurian fantasy novels ""The Once and Future King"" (1958, written 1938–41) and ""The Book of Merlyn"" (1977), ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" (1970) by Roald Dahl, Richard Adams's ""Watership Down"" (1972), Colin Dann's ""The Animals of Farthing Wood"" (1979), and Erin Hunter's ""Warriors"" (appearing since 2003). In the historic novel ""Incident at Hawk's Hill"" (1971) by Allan W. Eckert a badger is one of the main characters. Badgers are also featured in films and animations: a flash video of"
"Orange Juice. A tiger has been hiding under the boat's tarpaulin: it's Richard Parker, who had boarded the lifeboat with ambivalent assistance from Pi himself some time before the hyena attack. Suddenly emerging from his hideaway, Richard Parker kills and eats the hyena. Frightened, Pi constructs a small raft out of rescue flotation devices, tethers it to the bow of the boat and makes it his place of retirement. He begins conditioning Richard Parker to take a submissive role by using food as a positive reinforcer, and seasickness as a punishment mechanism, while using a whistle for signals. Soon, Pi"
"Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan and the Apes"" and its sequel, ""The Return of Tarzan"" (though there is one extended scene in chapter 15 of the latter in which the ape"
"the orangutan. Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena before retreating back to cover for several days. Pi fashions a small tethered raft from flotation vests which he retreats to for safety from Richard Parker. Despite his moral code against killing, he begins fishing, enabling him to sustain the tiger as well. When the tiger jumps into the sea to hunt for fish and then comes threateningly towards Pi, Pi considers letting him drown, but ultimately helps him back into the boat. One night, a humpback whale breaches near the boat, destroying the raft and its supplies."
"his soul ensues when he acquires an unlikely champion: a faithful Pomeranian dog, who instinctively knows something is up, and what to do about it. John le Carré thanked Koster in the acknowledgements to his ""The Tailor of Panama"" for his great help in providing local history and details. R. M. Koster Richard Morton Koster (1934) is an American novelist best known for the Tinieblas trilogy—""The Prince"" (1972), ""The Dissertation"" (1975), ""Mandragon"" (1979)—set in an imaginary Central American republic much like Panama, the author's home for many years. He is the author, besides, of two other novels, ""Carmichael's Dog"" (1992)"
"missing, and two young men (also from that country) come in search of ivory. Tarzan and the Leopard Men Tarzan and the Leopard Men is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. Its plot has nothing in common with the 1946 film ""Tarzan and the Leopard Woman"". An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion Nkima are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the Leopard Men, led by Gato Mgungu. From America,"
"The Jungle Warrior"" In 2013, he has published the third book ""Tarzan: The Savage Lands"". Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the ""Mangani"" great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel ""Tarzan of the Apes"" (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 25 sequels, several authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized. The film"
"Tarzan and the Leopard Men Tarzan and the Leopard Men is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. Its plot has nothing in common with the 1946 film ""Tarzan and the Leopard Woman"". An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion Nkima are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the Leopard Men, led by Gato Mgungu. From America, a young woman arrives in the territory in search of a loved one presumed"
"University of Saskatchewan. ""Beatrice and Virgil"", his third novel, came out in 2010. The work is an allegorical take on the Holocaust, attempting to approach this period not through the lens of historical witness, but through imaginative synthesis. The main characters in the story are a writer, a taxidermist, and two stuffed animals: a red howler monkey and a donkey. From 2007 to 2011, Martel ran a guerrilla book club with the then Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, sending the Prime Minister a book every two weeks for four years, a total of more than a hundred novels, plays,"
"Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat, and realizes that caring for the tiger is also helping keep himself alive. Weeks later they encounter a floating island of interconnected trees. It is a lush jungle of edible plants, fresh water pools and a large population of meerkats, enabling Pi and Richard Parker to eat and drink freely and regain strength. At night, the island transforms into a hostile environment. Richard Parker retreats to the lifeboat while Pi and the meerkats sleep in the trees; the water pools turn acidic, digesting the fish in them. Pi deduces that"
"was around $3 million, probably the highest ever advance for a single Canadian novel. Martel's earlier novel, ""Life of Pi"", won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and sold seven million copies worldwide. Early on in the story, the protagonist, an author, (some say that the protagonist is a reflection of Yann himself) makes reference to Primo Levi's ""If This Is a Man""; Art Spiegelman's ""Maus""; David Grossman's ""See Under: Love""; Martin Amis's ""Time's Arrow""; George Orwell's ""Animal Farm""; Albert Camus's ""The Plague""; and Pablo Picasso's ""Guernica"". Extracts are quoted from Flaubert's ""The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator"" which"
"tranquilizer darts while her cub escapes hiding in a bush. Parker names the cub Thirsty after his enthusiasm when drinking from a nearby river. The paperwork that accompanies the shipment of the two tigers to Pi's family's zoo in Pondicherry states that the cub's name is ""Richard Parker"" and the hunter's given name is ""Thirsty"" and his surname is ""None Given"", due to a mix-up with the names. Pi's father finds the story so amusing that they continue to call the tiger ""Richard Parker"". Brian Bethune of ""Maclean's"" describes ""Life of Pi"" as a ""head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory,"
"when the panther finally arrives at Anderson's hut - in repayment Anderson takes the dog home and names him 'Nipper'. The Striped Terror of Chamala Valley In 1937 a tiger is responsible for the death of seven people in the space of six months. Anderson locates the tiger by tying out baits, and though not fully equipped he decides to sit up over a kill and await the tigers return. Successfully killing the tiger, the locals help to carry it back to the village, though Anderson begins to doubt if in fact this is the correct tiger. Days later a"
"Lord Greystoke from Jane Porter, since he believes she will be happier marrying his cousin William Cecil Clayton. Tarzan leaves Wisconsin and heads north into Canada, where he discovers a lost civilization of Vikings. Tarzan on the Precipice Tarzan on the Precipice is a novel written by Michael A. Sanford featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs's jungle hero Tarzan. It is the second volume in The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, a series of new works authorized, licensed and published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. It was first published in May 2016 in trade paperback, with a hardcover edition released in the following"
"Korak (character) Korak [long ""O""] is the ape name of John ""Jack"" Clayton III, Earl of Greystoke , the son of Tarzan and Jane Porter. Jack first appeared in the original ""Tarzan"" novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was introduced as an infant in the non-Tarzan novel ""The Eternal Lover"" (later retitled ""The Eternal Savage""), in which the Ape Man and his family played supporting roles. His next appearance (still as an infant) was in ""The Beasts of Tarzan"", the third Tarzan novel, in which he was kidnapped and taken to Africa. The story of his youth and growth to"
"""Hunter Black"", by Justin Peniston, William Orr, and Jacob Bascle, features a title character inspired by the notion of putting Parker into a fantasy setting. Like ""The Hunter"", from which his name was drawn, ""Hunter Black"" starts off looking for payback against betrayers, but it soon diverges into a story of monsters, magic, and mayhem. Parker (Stark novels character) Parker is a fictional character created by American novelist Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008). A criminal anti-hero, Parker is the main protagonist of 24 of the 28 novels Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost"
"of Guy Maddin's 1997 Canadian film ""Twilight of the Ice Nymphs"" and the primary inspiration for Ben Rivers' 2011 docufiction ""Two Years at Sea"". Pan (novel) Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway. It remains one of his most famous works. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town, they are both strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the"
"to Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise in Beatrix Potter's ""The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher"" and Br'er Turtle in Uncle Remus's folktales. In Stephen King's ""The Dark Tower"" series, the world was created by the turtle Maturin, one of the guardians of the tower. Snakes, too, have played a role in literature since ancient Rome, where Cadmus kills a gigantic serpent in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", and as prophesied is transformed into a snake. The eponymous heroine in William Shakespeare's ""Antony and Cleopatra"" kills herself with an asp viper, while John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" describes Satan as a mighty serpent, ""Fold above fold a"
"Terrier (novel) Terrier is a young adult fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the first book in the ""Provost's Dog"" trilogy and the fifteenth book set in the Tortall Universe. It tells the story of Rebakah ""Beka"" Cooper, the ancestor of George Cooper from ""Song of the Lioness"" and Alianne from ""Trickster's Choice"" and ""Trickster's Queen"". It is set 200 years prior to the bulk of the Tortall novels. The story is told in the form of a series of journal entries made by Beka Cooper as she trains to become a Provosts Dog, a nickname for the police men and"
"identity and so on via neural implants, and which travel to the planets Crucible and Orison aboard holoships, supported by members of the Akinya spacefaring family. Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan"
"Marlfox Marlfox is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1998. It is the 11 book published and 13 chronologically in the ""Redwall"" series. Marlfoxes are an unusual breed of anthropomorphic foxes, which serve as the main antagonists in the book. When the treasure hungry Marlfoxes steal the lavish tapestry of Martin the Warrior from Redwall Abbey, a group of young Redwallers must go after the Marlfoxes in pursuit, while the remaining Redwallers fight off a vermin invasion back at the Abbey. The wandering Noonvale companions travel to Redwall, where they wish to mount a show. On the way,"
"one, Richard Parker, whom they spare to help them run the vessel. (At this point, the dog Tiger disappears from the novel; his unknown fate is a loose end in the narrative.) The storm increases in force, breaking the mast, tearing the sails and flooding the hold. All four manage to survive by lashing themselves to the hull. As the storm abates, they find themselves safe for the moment, but without provisions. Over the following days, the men face death by starvation and thirst. They sight an erratically moving Dutch ship with a grinning red-capped seaman on deck, nodding in"
"a new electrifying intensity – and page after page of riveting suspense. The Guardian (novel) The Guardian is the seventh novel by the American writer Nicholas Sparks. The book is a romance/thriller about a Great Dane named Singer who is the pet of a widow named Julie who is trying to find a new life partner. Among those she considers are Mike, an old friend of hers, and Richard, a successful manager. The novel deals with the themes of obsessive love. It shows the inner world of a highly intelligent murderer living with no ethics at all. The Guardian contains"
"supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his"
"the end, once she learns of Charlie's behaviour. The Snow Tiger The Snow Tiger is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1975. The sub-title of the book quotes the ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky: ""Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing – it is a tiger in lamb's clothing"". This story revolves around the protagonist, Ian Ballard, who works as a mine manager. He is the grandson of Ben Ballard, owner of the Ballard Holdings Limited, a giant financial group based in London specialising in mining operations around the world. Ben had four"
"all cited Blake as one of their major inspirations. Comic designer William Blake Everett claims to be descended from Blake. In his film ""Mean Streets"" (1973), Martin Scorsese refers to Blake's poem ""The Tyger"" when a young pet tiger makes Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro take refuge atop a couch, paralleling the grit and innocence of life in the city. A variation on a verse from Blake's ""America a Prophecy"" appears in Ridley Scott's science fiction film ""Blade Runner"" (1982), spoken by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer). This has been interpreted as a way of linking Batty to Blake's mythic"
"Tortoise and the Hare"", a tortoise defeats an overconfident hare in a race. Thomas King's novel The Back of the Turtle alludes to the idea of the World Turtle. In Stephen King's ""The Dark Tower"" series, the turtle is a prominent figure. Named Maturin, the turtle is one of the twelve guardians of the beams which hold up the dark tower. There is also a small carving of the turtle which is described as a 'tiny god'. A rhyme is recited by the characters, ""See the TURTLE of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the Earth."" This rhyme and"