South of darkness / John Marsden.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 376 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743531563Subject(s): Australian fiction | Adventure stories, Australian | Convicts -- New South Wales -- Botany Bay -- Fiction | Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Botany Bay -- Fiction | Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 Summary: 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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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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