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Journey to the River Sea
Journey to the River Sea
Paperback
Published:
8 May, 2014
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Description
An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters.
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.
Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
Prizes
Winner of Nestle 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)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781447265689 |
| ISBN10 | 1447265688 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 230 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 196 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | Paperback |
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Author's Bio
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal and was shortlisted for both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.