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An exciting and powerful novel in regards to a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and prize, with echoes of Great Objectives, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach's Menagerie tells the story of the nineteenth-century neighborhood urchin named Jaffy Brown. Pursuing an occurrence with an escaped tiger, Jaffy would go to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of amazing animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry. Mr. Jamrach recruits both boys to fully capture a fabled dragon during a three-year whaling expedition. Onboard, Jaffy and Tim enjoy the difficult brotherhood of sailors and the brutal artwork of whale hunting. They even flourish in capturing the reptilian beast. However when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to consider the dragon - seething with feral electricity in its cage - as bad luck, a feeling that is cruelly reinforced when a violent storm sinks the ship. Drifting across an extremely hallucinatory sea, the survivors, including Jaffy and Tim, are compelled to confront their own put in place the animal kingdom. Masterfully told, wildly atmospheric, and thundering with anxiety, Jamrach's Menagerie is a really haunting novel about friendship, sacrifice, and success. From the Hardcover edition.
