The Banjo's Best-loved Poems
- ISBN-10
- 1741105358
- ISBN-13
- 9781741105353
- Category
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Andrew Barton Paterson
Description
The poems in this collection were chosen by Paterson's granddaughters - those that have proved most popular as well as their own particular favourites.Time spent reading ths book will be time spent with old, familiar friends. There is a warmth, richness and humour about the poems of Banjo Paterson that has endeared them to generations of Australians. Old favourites include: The Man from Snowy River Mulga Bill's Bicycle The Geebung Polo Club and of course Waltzing Matilda
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