'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Lib., PullmanĬopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Though the feats of psychic maneuvering tend to become redundant, this generally well-written first novel will appeal to ophidiaphiles and fans of fantasy.Carol J. Sandeagozu by Jenner, Janann V Edition: First Edition, First Printing Book Condition: Collectible - Very Good/Very Good Book Description: Harper.

In this novel, animals, particularly snakes, clearly possess the superior minds and emotions humans are merely tolerated as creatures of greed and ignorance. Together they survive an imperiled journey to Sandeagozu (the San Diego Zoo?), an imagined Shangri-la for animals, by outsmarting crocodiles in subterranean New York and hitchhiking west. From the dreary confines of a pet emporium in New York City, where exotic dancer Ruthie has abandoned her, Sherahi escapes with a coatimundi, langur, cascabel, and macaw whom she has befriended. The heroine of this fantasy is Sherahi, a 30-foot-long Burmese python with astonishing trans-species mind-reading and telepathic powers. Major ad/promo.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. As a result, the characters are appealing but their melodramatic adventures among stereotyped, mostly cruel humans will do best with animal advocates and fans of such works as The Incredible Journey and Watership Down.

Although the natural science background is interesting and detailed (the author is a herpetologist), the animals are as anthropomorphized as in any Disney nature film. With four companionsa coatimundi, a macaw, a langur monkey and a rattlesnakeshe escapes into a wintry New York subway and the lairs of ancient white crocodiles before continuing west toward her goal. The San Diego Zoo) where it is always warm and there are no cages. There she meets the other 'culls' (sick and unsalable animals) who tell her of the paradisial Sandeagozu (i.e. Captured in Burma in 1921, despite her formidable mental powers, Sherahi spends years as a living prop in a burlesque routine before being sold to Leftrack's Pet Emporium in New York City.

python named Sherahi is at the center of this urban Jungle Book.

Sandeagozu by Janann V. Jenner