Banjo Paterson
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-74343-312-6
- EAN: 9781743433126
- Produktnummer: 16443363
- Verlag: Allen & Unwin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'267 KB
Über den Autor
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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