Product Information
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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan Australia, MacMillan Childrens
ISBN-101509832254
ISBN-139781509832255
eBay Product ID (ePID)223089840
Product Key Features
Book TitleJourney to the River Sea
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicChildren's & Young Adult Fiction
GenreChildren's Fiction
AuthorEva Ibbotson
FormatB-Format Paperback, Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height197 mm
Item Weight236 g, 227 g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication25/08/2016
Country/Region of ManufactureLondon, United Kingdom
Pagination320
Title_AuthorEva Ibbotson
PrizesWinner of Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Award 2001. Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2001 and Whitbread Children's Book Award 2002.
Author BiographyEva 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.
Edition StatementNew Edition