TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marsden,John
TI  - South of darkness
SN  - 9781743531563
U1  - A823.3 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Sydney, New South Wales
PB  - Pan Macmillan Australia
KW  - Convicts
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Botany Bay
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Penal colonies
KW  - Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
KW  - Adventure stories
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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. A riveting story of courage, hope and extraordinary adventure
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