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Banjo Paterson's ballads are as fresh and alive today as they were one hundred years ago. This lively selection of poetry and prose brings together all the old classics along with the not-so-well-known and the off-beat: a prose account of an illegal dog fight in the Botany sandhills; bungling British officers at the Boer War, and Paterson addressing a barmaid in verse on the prospects - or otherwise - of 7/4 favourites. Richard Hall's deeply researched introduction gives us a biographical picture of Paterson quite unlike that which some have tried to promote of a conservative squatter's mouthpiece. This Banjo is tough-minded and sceptical, and the modern reader will gain a new appreciation of some of Australia's favourite literature. '.brings a new and fresh understanding of Banjo, the man. Tragic as it is that his great talents were never adequately rewarded financially, this very fact may have contributed to his earthiness and his empathy with the common man.' - John Tapp

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Author:   Richard Hall
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
Imprint:   A & U House of Books
Weight:   0.274kg
ISBN:  

9781743315422

ISBN 10:   1743315422
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2012
Recommended Age:   From
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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 Waltzing Matilda THE SPORTING LIFE 'When I went to the Bar' A Dream of the Melbourne Cup Old 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 Olive Schreiner At the Front A Day Under Fire: A Battlefield Sketch The Pursuit of De Wet An 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 An 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 of first lines

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Richard Hall worked as a journalist and in politics and has published books on historical/biographical topics, crime and espionage. He was also the writer of the Costello spy-thriller series. He passed away in 2003.

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