Journey to the River Sea
of Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrations)
Description
Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304 pages
- Publisher Puffin Books
- Publication Date October 13th 2003
- First Publication 05/04/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780142501849
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Amazon Rainforest']
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