
South of Darkness
by John Marsden
Book Details
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Published: 2014
Language: en
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781743531570
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Description
A riveting story of courage, hope and extraordinary adventure."You will hardly read a more fascinating account of a convict's voyage to Australia" Australian Book ReviewThirteen-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.
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FictionHistorical
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