{"product_id":"jamrachs-menagerie-9780307743176","title":"Jamrach's Menagerie","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pass, Mr. Jamrach recruits Jaffy and another boy named Tim to capture a fabled dragon during the course of an epic three-year whaling expedition in the East Indies. But when a violent storm sinks the ship, Jaffy and Tim are forced to confront their relationship to the natural world and the wildness it contains. \u003ci\u003eJamrach's Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly gripping novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Birch \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of ten other novels. She has won the David Higham Prize for\u003ci\u003e Life in the Palace, \u003c\/i\u003e the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Fog Line, \u003c\/i\u003e and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for \u003ci\u003eTurn Again Home\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eJamrach's Menagerie \u003c\/i\u003eis her first full-length novel to be published in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917547409682,"sku":"9780307743176","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e15824fb-8e99-4dee-8bef-4480c68ef9bc.jpg?v=1738867926","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jamrachs-menagerie-9780307743176","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}