Jamrach's Menagerie

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Text Publishing Co
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 346 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Jaffy Brown Is Only Eight And Lives In The Slums Of Victorian London. A Chance Meeting With The Magnetic Mr. Jamrach Changes His Life On Boarding A Ship With His Friend Tim.

Publishers Description: London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when things start to go awry, Jaf's journey becomes a fight for survival which will push faith, love and friendship to their outermost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly compulsive, Carol Birch's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas. This historical adventure is a major literary accomplishment and will delight fans of Michel Faber and Sara Gruen.

ISBN: 9781921758959