Bush Ballads Of Australia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: The Currawong Press
Publisher Place: French's Forest
Publisher Year: 1988
Edition: Reprint

Description: 240 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Stockman And Shearers, Drovers And Musterers, Squators And Selectors,bushrangers And Troopers, Diggers And Miners-these Are The Men Who Forged Our National Character And Whose Exploits, Real Or Fabled, Contributed To Its Robustness.

Publishers Description: An Anthology Drawn from Traditional Sources. Selected illustrations by David Bromley.From Inside the front cover:"Bush Ballads of Australia"Stockmen and shearers, drovers and musterers, squatters and selectors, bushrangers and troopers, diggers and miners — these are the men who forged our national character and whose exploits, real or fabled, contributed to its robustness. All the qualities we celebrate today — physical hardiness, self-reliance, toughness and suspicion of authority tempered always by laconic good humour — are here preserved in an anthology of more than one hundred of our best-loved bush ballads drawn from the sadly anonymous verse of the gold rush days to the best work of such masters as Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and Will Ogilvie among others.The Golden Age of the Ballad was also a Golden Age of pen illustrations, examples of which, combined with chapter decorations by David Bromley, add freshness to a collection of continuing appeal.

ISBN: 0730102556