Jamrach's Menagerie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Melbourne Text Publishing 2011ISBN:

9781921758454

DDC classification:

823 F-823 BIR

Summary: 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 novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas

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Item type	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Satellite Town Sr. Campus (Senior Library - Northern Region)	F 823 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	12314	Available		2025-3793188
Books	Satellite Town Sr. Campus (Senior Library - Northern Region)	F 823 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	12314	Available		2025-3793189

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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 novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas

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