num_pages: 376
description: 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.
language: English
title: South of Darkness
publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia