Jamrach's Menagerie
Carol Birch$17.00
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Nineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pass, Mr. Jamrach recruits Jaffy and another boy named Tim to capture a fabled dragon during the course of an epic three-year whaling expedition in the East Indies. But when a violent storm sinks the ship, Jaffy and Tim are forced to confront their relationship to the natural world and the wildness it contains. Jamrach's Menagerie is a truly gripping novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 06/12/2012
ISBN: 9780307743176
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.91d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/22/2012 pg. 28