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Jamrach's menagerie : a novel
- Title
- Jamrach's menagerie : a novel / by Carol Birch.
- Author
- Birch, Carol, 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-1360 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 295 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Sea fiction.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Fiction.
- Awards (note)
- Man Booker shortlist 2011.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1360
- ISBN
- 9780385534406
- 038553440X
- LCCN
- 2010038082
- OCLC
- 664450889
- Author
- Birch, Carol, 1951-
- Title
- Jamrach's menagerie : a novel / by Carol Birch.
- Imprint
- New York : Doubleday, ©2011.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Man Booker shortlist 2011.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1360