My journey book is titled 'Journey To The River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson. It takes place in 1910. The main character is Maia who is tragically orphaned at 13 and has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon in Brazil. An eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey accompanies her. They both soon discover an exotic world bursting with adventures in the jungle.
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