日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 77 As the cartons of survival rations diminished, I reduced my intake till I was following instructions exactly, holding myself to only two biscuits every eight hours. I was continuously hungry. I thought about food obsessively. The less I h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 76 I got into the habit of cleaning up after Richard Parker. As soon as I became aware that he had had a bowel movement, I went about getting to it, a risky operation involving nudging his feces my way with the gaff and reaching for them fro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 75 On the day when I estimated it was Mothers birthday, I sang Happy Birthday to her out loud. 第七十五章 在我估计是母亲生日的那一天，我大声对她唱了生日快乐... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 74 I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances - solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing wher... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 73 My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time. Alas, there was no scripture in the lifeboat. I was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 72 In my case, to protect myself from Richard Parker while I trained him, I made a shield with a turtle shell. I cut a notch on each side of the shell and connected them with a length of rope. The shield was heavier than I would have liked,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 61 The next morning I was not too wet and I was feeling strong. I thought this was remarkable considering the strain I was under and how little I had eaten in the last several days. It was a fine day. I decided to try my hand at fishing, for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 60 I awoke once during the night. I pushed the canopy aside and looked out. The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the nig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 59 Alone or not, lost or not, I was thirsty and hungry. I pulled on the rope. There was a slight tension. As soon as I lessened my grip on it, it slid out, and the distance between the lifeboat and the raft increased. So the lifeboat drifted... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 58 I pulled out the survival manual. Its pages were still wet. I turned them carefully. The manual was written by a British Royal Navy commander. It contained a wealth of practical information on surviving at sea after a shipwreck. It includ... 阅读全文>>