South of darkness / John Marsden.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014.Description: 376 pages : illustrations, maps (colour) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781743531563
- Adventure stories
- Penal colonies
- Convicts
- Adventure stories, Australian
- Australian fiction
- Convicts -- New South Wales -- Fiction
- Convicts -- New South Wales -- Botany Bay -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Botany Bay -- Fiction
- Australia -- Fiction
- Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
- Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.3 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Young Adult | MAR | Available | 058200 |
Maps on end pages.
"An epic journey of a convict boy's extraordinary journey from Australia's master stroyteller" --Cover.
Bibliography included in author's notes.
includes bibliographical references.
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.
