A story rich in detail written in a style easy to read exciting swift-moving. It combines sound scholarship with vivid understanding of a childs taste and joys.This story brings to life one of the most important voyages of history the sailing of the First Fleet under Captain Phillip to Botany Bay. With John and his sister Sue we share the excitements and hopes of the long sea-way the sights and sounds of strange ports the adventures of a little family following Papa an officer of the Marines to