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Jamrach's menagerie

1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach - explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world's strangest creatures - the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey - if he survives it - will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.

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  • "1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach - explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world's strangest creatures - the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey - if he survives it - will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits."
  • "1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach - explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world's strangest creatures - the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey - if he survives it - will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits."@en
  • "London, 1857. Meet Jaf, a young street urchin who survives an encounter with an escaped tiger in the city's East End and stumbles into a job with its owner, Mr. Jamrach, a collector and seller of wild animals. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and capture a mysterious, exotic creature, Jaf joins a whaling ship bound for the South Seas and begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when disaster befalls the crew, Jaf 's journey becomes a desperate survival tale that pushes love, friendship and humanity to their outermost limits. Beautifully written and utterly spellbinding, Jamrach's Menagerie conjures the smells, sights and flavours of the 19th century, from the squalor of Victorian London to the lush islands of the Dutch East Indies. A great, salty, historical adventure, with an extraordinary story of love and sacrifice at its core, this is an astonishing literary achievement."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • ""1857: Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. As he is plucked from the jaws of death by Mr. Jamrach--explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world's strangest creatures--the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr. Jamrach. His journey--if he survives it--will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits."--Cover flap."
  • "Jaffy Brown wächst in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf: Londons Docklands im Jahr 1857 stinken nach Moder und Unrat, sind bevölkert von Matrosen und Huren. Eines Tages begegnet Jaffy einem aus einer Menagerie entlaufenen Tiger, einem herrlichen Geschöpf auf geschmeidigen Pfoten. Eine Begegnung, die ihn in eine fremde, verheissungsvolle Welt voll exotischer Schönheit, wilder Tiere und wundersamer Geschöpfe versetzt. Und die in Jaffy Sehnsucht nach der Weite des Meeres weckt: Mit seinem besten Freund Tim heuert er auf einem Walfänger an, der sie auf eine abenteuerliche Reise führt, tief hinein in die Stürme des Indischen Ozeans. Und schliesslich an die Grenzen der Welt und ihres Menschseins."
  • "Een Londens straatjochie van 9 jaar monstert samen met zijn vriendje in 1857 aan bij een walvisvaarder voor een tocht naar de Stille Zuidzee om te proberen een draak te vangen."
  • "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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  • "Large type books"
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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "הילד שנגע באף של נמר"
  • "Der Atem der Welt : Roman"
  • "Jamrach's menagerie"
  • "Jamrach's menagerie"@en
  • "Dragetid"@da
  • "Jamrachs menagerie"
  • "Jamrach's menagerie exp"
  • "男孩杰的动物园"
  • "Nan hai Jie de dong wu yuan"
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  • "Jamrach's menagerie : a novel"@en
  • "Jamrach's menagerie : a novel"
  • "Der Atem der Welt"
  • "Jamrachův zvěřinec"
  • "Der Atem der Welt Roman"
  • "Jamrach's menagerie a novel"@en
  • "El zoo de Jamrach"@es
  • "Jamrach's Menagerie : a novel"@en
  • "Memorie di un cacciatore di draghi"
  • "Memorie di un cacciatore di draghi"@it

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