This is an auction for THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER & OTHER POEMS BY BANJO PATERSON.

From Wikipedia:

"Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (1864 –1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing on rural and outback areas. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow"... The publication of The Man from Snowy River and five other ballads in The Bulletin made 'The Banjo' a household name. In 1895, near Winton, Queensland, he met Christina Macpherson, who had recently attended a race at Warrnambool in Victoria. She had heard a band playing a tune there, which became stuck in her head and replayed it for Paterson on the autoharp. The melody propelled him to write "Waltzing Matilda". While there has been much debate about what inspired the words, the song became one of his most his widely known and sung ballads... Although for most of his adult life, Paterson lived and worked in Sydney, his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the iconic figure of the bushman. His representation of the bushman as a tough, independent and heroic underdog became the ideal qualities underpinning the national character. His work is often compared to the prose of Henry Lawson, particularly the seminal work, "The Drover's Wife", which presented a considerably less romantic view of the harshness of rural existence of the late 19th century..."

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Paperback 1994.

250 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $3.95.

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