| Description |
1 online resource (387 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Andrew Barton Paterson-His Fortunate Life; Notes on selection; The Bush; The Man from Snowy River; Clancy of The Overflow; Conroy's Gap; The Travelling Post Office; In the Droving Days; On Kiley's Run; Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill; 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'; A Mountain Station; Black Swans; A Bushman's Song; How Gilbert Died; Come-by-Chance; Jim Carew; The Swagman's Rest; The Daylight is Dying; By the Grey Gulf-water; Saltbush Bill; Saltbush Bill's Gamecock; Saltbush Bill's Second Fight; Saltbush Bill, J.P.; Hay and Hell and Booligal; Brumby's Run |
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Waltzing MatildaThe Sporting Life; When I Went to the Bar'; A Dream of the Melbourne Cup; O1d Pardon, the Son of Reprieve; The Geebung Polo Club; The Amateur Rider; Only a Jockey; Concerning a Steeplechase Rider; Tommy Corrigan; Father Riley's Horse; The Oracle at the Races; Hints to Urgers; Shakespeare on the Turf; The Reporter's Eye; El Mahdi to the Australian Troops; The Boss of the Admiral Lynch; The Pearl Diver; A Trip with the Pearlers; With French to Kimberley; Johnny Boer; From the Boer Side: Interview with O1ive Schreiner; At the Front; A Day Under Fire: A Battlefield Sketch |
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The Pursuit of De WetAn Informal Letter from London; In Push Society; The Cook-house; Concerning a Dog Fight; The Ways of the Wild: The Dog-Poisoner; The Banjo v. Henry Lawson; Borderland (Henry Lawson); In Defence of the Bush; In Answer to 'Banjo' and Otherwise (Henry Lawson); An Answer to Various Bards; The Comic Side; The Man from Ironbark; How M'Ginnis Went Missing; Johnson's Antidote; A Bush Christening; Mulga Bill's Bicycle; It's Grand; The City of Dreadful Thirst; When Dacey Rode the Mule; Any Other Time-A Ballad of Good Excuses; Last Words; 'Banjo' Paterson tells his own Story; Index |
| Summary |
Banjo Paterson's ballads are as fresh and alive today as they were one hundred years ago. This new and lively selection of poetry and prose brings together all the old classics along with the not-so-well-known and the off-beat, and allows the modern reader to gain a new appreciation of some of Australia's favourite literature |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Literary collections
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742696560 |
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1742696562 |
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