![]() Just like our protagonist Maia, I want to see the Rio Negro and the Amazon River. I want to see this vibrant, vivid world for myself. Now that I’ve finished Journey to the River Sea, I want nothing more than to pack my bags and run away to Manaus. All without a plane ticked or my passport. I’ve just had the adventure of a lifetime, traipsing about the Amazonian Jungle with Mrs Ibbotson as my official guide. ![]() Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious “Indian” with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and “curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees.” ![]() ![]() Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. ![]()
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