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Banjo Paterson-The Man Who Wrote Waltzing Matilda

His Life and Poetry
  • ISBN-13: 9781921683473
  • Publisher: WOODSLANE PRESS
    Imprint: WOODSLANE PRESS
  • By Derek Parker
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 9 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 07/05/2012
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 130.00mm) 200 pages Weight: 280g
  • Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]
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A.B `Banjo Paterson was not simply the author of the words of `Waltzing Matilda, Australias unofficial national anthem, and many other classic ballads such as `The man from Snowy River and `Clancy of the Overflow. Though it is now almost forgotten, he was a first-rate war correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, a friend of `Breaker Morant, an expert horseman, and later an editor of The Sydney Evening News and The Sportsman and the earliest collection of traditional Aussie bush songs. This new paperback edition includes over 50 of his most popular poems and a new chapter on the development on his poetry.

Derek Parker has been an editor and critic, and is the author of eight previous biographies. Derek lives in Sydney with his wife Julia, with whom he has co-authored another 28 books on various subjects from astrology to travel.

Foreword

Introduction

  1. Childhood in the Bush
  2. The Birth of the Banjo
  3. Waltzing Matilda
  4. The Banjo at War
  5. To China and England
  6. The Banjo and the Breaker
  7. Again to War
  8. The Final Years

A Selection of Banjo Patersons Poetry

  • Waltzing Matilda
  • Clancy of the Overflow
  • Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
  • In the Droving Days
  • The Man from Snowy River
  • Lost
  • The Geebung Polo Club
  • The Amateur Rider
  • Last Week
  • Johnsons Antidote
  • Father Rileys Horse
  • In the Stable
  • Old Australian Ways
  • Were all Australians Now
  • White Cockatoos
  • A Bush Christening
  • Under the Shadow of Kileys Hill
  • Brumbys Run

The Banjo Paterson Trail

Sources

Notes

Index

  • Banjo Patersons ballads have earned him everlasting fame in Australia
  • This concise biography celebrates Bankos life and includes a selection of the very best of his poetry

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