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    Journey to the River Sea
    Journey to the River Sea
    Journey to the River Sea
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Journey to the River Sea

    Written by Eva Ibbotson

    Narrated by Imelda Staunton

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    About this audiobook

    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 and award-winning adventure read aloud by actress Imelda Staunton.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateMay 2, 2008
    ISBN9780230713345
    Journey to the River Sea
    Author

    Eva Ibbotson

    Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final book, One Dog and His Boy, was published in May 2011.

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      Didn’t like the random music. I did enjoy the story.