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Jamrach's menagerie / Carol Birch.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BIRC	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781921758454 (pbk.)
Name	Birch, Carol, 1951-
Title	Jamrach's menagerie / Carol Birch.
Published	Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2011.
Description	348 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes	First published: London : Canongate.
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.
Genre	Sea stories
Genre	Historical fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Historical fiction . Sea stories . See Also: Adventure stories . Authors: Birch, Carol, 1951- .