I have been looking into taking a short camping trip in Fujairah and while doing research I came across your blog post. I am very interested in the experience you had but am unable to find more information… I checked your link to Mr.Saif Al Dahmani but the website does not work. I have found other blogs on the subject but no usable info..

How did you find out about this campsite? Where can I book a space? How??

Thank you so much for your help on this, I really want to go!

Melody

What is most interesting to me is the fact that Pi makes sense of his trials/experience aboard the lifeboat through the edifice of a tameable/controllable nature. Pi occupies four spaces indicative of different modes of the natural throughout the novel – the ocean, the island, the zoo, and (to a lesser extent) the circus. The former two appear to represent places of abundance and savagery (consider the violence and fecundity of the island that Morgante discussed above). The latter two become spaces of control and order (consider the story of the goat living with the rhinoceros). Interesting, Pi is fixated on creating these latter two spaces in his experience of the former two (for example, circus training on the island and lifeboat). The notion of “taming” Richard Parker, establishing a circus on the lifeboat, becomes a means of survival. As a result – barring an episode near the end of the novel (not being able to speak with spoilers will stunt this comment!) – Life of Pi reflects a confrontational view of nature and culture. Pi does not seem to find a way to live peaceably with nature; instead, he appears to survive by clinging to “humanity” when faced with the necessity of becoming “savage” (i.e. butchering prey, drinking turtle blood). Does this reading of Life of Pi confuse the linkage between zoology and theology introduced at the beginning of the novel?

Are the three novels available in Arabic, too? (I think I saw Fahrenheit 451 in Arabic on a shelve somewhere, not sure about the two other titles.)