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Jamrach's Menagerie

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Book ID: 107836896
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 442 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780385534413

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✦ Synopsis

**A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and _The Voyage of the Narwhal.

_** J amrach's Menagerie tells 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 sailors and the brutal art of whale hunting. They even 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...

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