With her travels a new governess, Miss Arabella Minton, outwardly a cross between Mary Poppins and Atilla the Hun, inwardly a canny, resourceful, big-hearted sort with sadness in her past. Two years after the death of her parents, young Maia departs London’s Mayfair Academy For Young Ladies for Manaus, a remote town on the Amazon where the Carters, distant relatives, have at last been located. 744, etc.) dispenses with magic wands and mythical creatures here and dishes up her best work yet-a topnotch 1910 adventure featuring exotic, vividly evoked locales, a caricature-rich cast filled with likeable (as well as thoroughly despicable) characters, and enough plot to fill an entire trilogy. He is a good-natured, wise, and passionate individual who enjoys adventure.Known for witty, entertaining fantasies, Ibbotson ( Dial-a-Ghost, p. The Amazon is still uncharted territory for Maia, who is fascinated and perplexed by it and longs for it to be her own home. Professors Neville Glastonberry, Sergei, and Olga were among the many people that Maia also got to know. In addition, he develops close relationships with Clovis King and Finn Taverner, both of whom share his loneliness and vulnerability in different ways.
He became close to Miss Minton, one of his caregivers. After his parents passed away, he moved to the Amazon to live with his relatives, the Carters, who took advantage of him and treated him badly in exchange for money from his deceased parents.
She previously attended a boarding school in England called the "Mayfair Academy for Young Women," where all expenses were covered by a trust fund set up by his parents. Maia is talented in music and is bright, passionate, daring, determined, and resourceful. The book's protagonist, Maia is an orphan. Maia's life journey is chronicled in Journey to the River Sea. The early 20th century is primarily depicted in Manaus, Brazil, and it presents the author's interpretation of the Amazon River. Eva Ibbotson wrote the adventure book Journey to the River Sea, which was released in 2001 by MacMillan. Maia is narrated as part of the journey to the river sea.
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