South Of Darkness

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 376 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Barnaby Fletch Was An Orphan, Who Committed A Crime So As To Get To Australia.

Publishers Description: My name, then, is Barnaby Fletch. To the best of my knowledge I have no middle name and cannot say of whom I am the son, or of whom my fathers fathers father was the son. Alas, my origins are shrouded in mystery.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.

ISBN: 9781743531563