Jamrach's menagerie
By: Carol Birch
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781847676566; 9781847676573
Subjects: Male friendship; Whaling; Sailors; Seafaring life; Fiction; Animal specialists; Boys; Shipwreck survival; Explorers; Exotic animals
Description: Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with the escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach, the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the South Seas.