A prize winning, action packed trilogy of children stories first published in 1988 and now available for the first time in one volume. In an unequal world half the planet lives in comfort while the other half festers in a giant rubbish tip. Aracuria is a boy with a mission. In an exciting adventure he and his friends seek the treasure that will stir the people of the south to rebellion and set the world to rights. But when they board the Solar Ducks for the planet Draco they can hardly know what terrors lie ahead...