Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
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.
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch's most recent novel, was longlisted for the Orange Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She had previously been on the Man Booker Prize longlist and had received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307743176 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307743179 |
| Title | Jamrach's Menagerie |
| Author | Carol Birch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-06-12 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults 2011, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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