Journey to the River Sea

· Macmillan Children's Books
5.0
2 reviews
Ebook
400
Pages

About this ebook

A beautiful 10th Anniversay edition of this much-loved Ibbotson classic - with added bonus material! It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning adventure.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
2 reviews
foxflowers
December 28, 2012
I loved it. It just makes u want to read more. I read this and read this until the end!!
Holly Arnold
January 18, 2015
Amazing when I read it as a child, still wonderful today as an adult.

About the author

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but spent her early childhood travelling backwards and forwards across Europe between the homes of her father, a scientist, and her mother, a novelist, who separated when she was three. When the Nazis came to power, her family fled to England. She lives in Newcastle, where she brought up her four children and has written the bestselling novels for both adults and children that have been published all around the world.

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