Jamrach's Menagerie  -  Carol Birch

KORTE INHOUD

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 regar...
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2011 Uitgever: Canongate Books 348 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0857863835 ISBN-13: 9780857863836