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. It was an arduous four-months at sea, a journey that would never see him return to the family and home he loved. Leopold's story is about a young man learning to stand on his own two feet: a young man who became a policeman, detective, and interpreter, solving murder cases. He could not have imagined himsel