An epic trip into the Amazon’s lush jungle, complete with sinister relatives, exotic beasts and poison-tip arrows. A bit like Northern Lights in a dugout canoe. No greater adventure can be imagined. In 1910, orphan Maia is sent from her English boarding school to the fabulous wilderness of the Amazon jungle. She’s meant to live with distant relatives there. But Maia’s relatives are not all they seem. Now she and a mysterious Indian boy, Finn, must flee for their lives up the great river. Can they survive in this uncharted world of anacondas and crocodiles, poisonous trees and strange, impossible animals?

A majestic winner of the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award

Vivid, sensual fiction with a rich cast of characters

The late Eva Ibbotson was an iconic children’s writer

This is probably her most famous and best-loved book

*“Too exciting to put down. Sheer pleasure.” The Times

Supplied as a pack of six copies.

Product Details

Catalogue number

5216 in Schools Catalogue 2017/18, 2915 in Reading Collections Catalogue 2017/18, 8379 in Education Catalogue 2018 and 5688 in Schools Catalogue - Primary UK 2018/19

Format

Paperback

Date published

June 1st, 2017

Condition

New

In this pack

Journey to the River Sea

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Price: £6.99

Author/Illustrator

Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults. She has a daughter and three sons, who showed her that children like to read about ghosts, wizards, and witches “because they are just like people but madder and more interesting.”

She was born in Vienna, in Austria, but moved to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. After training to be a physiologist which she didn’t enjoy because she didn’t like doing experiments on animals, Eva got married and had four very nice children.

Her first children’s book, The Great Ghost Rescue was published in 1975, and she is best known for titles like Journey to the River Sea and The Dragonfly Pool. Eva died in 2010, aged 85.