Journey to the River Sea
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An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters, read by actress Imelda Staunton.
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.
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Eva Ibbotson writes for both adults and children. Her books for children, with their fantastic creatures, outrageous characters, dark humour and brilliant storytelling, have much in common with Roald Dahl's. Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Prize Gold Award and was Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue.
Reader Imelda Staunton is well known internationally for her many film roles, just some of which include Shakespeare in Love, Much Ado About Nothing and Sense and Sensibility.
