They Came South

Description

When in 1839, 13-year-old Angus McIvor accidently burns down the Squire’s haystack, he faces hanging. His sister Jeannie persuades him to escape to Australia where they hope he can earn enough to repay the Squire. Working his passage to the new settlement of Melbourne as a galley-boy, Angus meets Edward Foster, who rather mysteriously carries a well filled money-belt. And this is not the only surprising thing about Edward…