Journey to the River Sea
Journey to the River Sea (New Century Readers) Eva Ibbotson,
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 0582795923
DDC: 428
Edition: Hardcover; 2003-01-17
Summary:
With the memorable characters and plot twists she brings to her
best-selling fantasies, Eva Ibbotson has written a hair-raising
novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil. Maia, an orphan, is
sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber
plantation in South America. The brave, curious girl and her fierce
but kind governess arrive in their new home, each with secret hopes
of adventure. These are immediately quashed by the Carters, who hate
their adopted land and its inhabitants. They are obsessed with
re-creating England in the forest, right down to the watery puddings.
It is only through friendship with a mysterious Indian boy (who just
might be the heir to a large fortune) and a runaway child actor (who
specializes in Little Lord Fauntleroy) that Maia and Miss Minton, her
governess, find the excitement they longed for: an unexpected
expedition into the heart of the Amazon, in search of a lost tribe
and the legendary giant sloth.
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