Jamrach's Menagerie A Novel

Name: Jamrach's Menagerie A Novel
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ISBN: 9780307743176

ISBN-10: 0307743179

ISBN-13: 9780307743176

Edition: 2011

Authors: Carol Birch

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A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes ofGreat Expectations, Moby-Dick,andThe Voyage of the Narwhal.Jamrach’s Menagerietells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry.Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition. Onboard, Jaffy and Tim enjoy the rough brotherhood of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. She has lived in London, southwest Ireland and now Lancaster. For her first novel, LIFE IN THE PALACE, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year. In 1991 she won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with THE FOG LINE.