The Second Son

The Second Son is a biographical account of the life of Baron Leopold von der Borch an aristocrat who in 1868 at the age of twenty-two left Germany for Australia aboard the George Shotten. During the four months at sea he could not have imagined that he would never return to the family and home he loved. Leopolds story is about a young man learning to stand on his own two feet: a young man who became a detective an interpreter and the first official police photographer in Australia. The Second Son is a story of challenge of contrast and of hope.