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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. Leopold's 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.

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"""The careful research and the delightful portrayal of life for the young Leopold in Germany, and his very different life in Australia is well written, and the reader can feel the empathy that the author has for her subject."" Manning Community News"

The careful research and the delightful portrayal of life for the young Leopold in Germany, and his very different life in Australia is well written, and the reader can feel the empathy that the author has for her subject. Manning Community News

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"Diana von der Borch-Garden has a degree in English and Drama. She was a freelance writer for a children's television show, ""Kid's Only"", and workshopped a couple of episodes of an Australian television series, ""A Country Practice"". She is also a published poet. Diana works as a rehabilitation counsellor, and has worked in the disability area for a number of years. More recently, she studied art psychotherapy, which she now combines with her work as a rehabilitation counsellor in her area of interest in chronic pain management. Diana has a son, Alexander, and lives in Adelaide."

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