Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, 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 Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson's highly colourful, joyous adventure.

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final book, One Dog and His Boy, was published in May 2011.

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ISBN 13	9781447265689
ISBN 10	1447265688
Title	Journey to the River Sea
Author	Eva Ibbotson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2014-05-08
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Winner of Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award 2001 (UK), Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2001 (UK), Short-listed for Whitbread Children's Book Award 2002 (UK)
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