South of Darkness
Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.
Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business.
When he hears of a paradise on the other side of the world — a place called Botany Bay — he decides to commit a crime and get himself transported to a new life, a better life.
To succeed, he must survive the trials of Newgate Prison, the stinking hull of a prison ship and the unknown terrors of a journey across the world.
And Botany Bay is far from the paradise Barnaby has imagined. When his past and present suddenly collide, he is soon fleeing for his life — once again.
- Author
- John Marsden
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781743531563
- Settings
- London, England, Botany Bay, Sydney
- Genres
- historical, fiction, australia, audiobook, adult, adventure
- Release date
- 2014
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