{"product_id":"1443405167-jamrachs_menagerie","title":"Jamrach's Menagerie","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, 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 for its owner, Mr. Jamrach, a collector and seller of wild animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a half-mythical dragon, Jaf joins a whaling ship headed south 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and utterly spellbinding, Jamrach’s Menagerie conjures the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth 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 book is an astonishing literary achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Used - Like New","offer_id":47597422149822,"sku":"1443405167-2","price":19.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61bFZuztM7L._SL500.jpg?v=1780335191","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1443405167-jamrachs_menagerie","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}