Jamrach's menagerie

By Carol Birch

Subjects: Boys, Animal specialists, Seafaring life, England, fiction, Explorers, Fiction, sea stories, Friendship, fiction, Whaling, Male friendship, Shipwreck survival, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Exotic animals, Sailors

Description: Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with the escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach, the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the South Seas.