Banjo Paterson-The Man Who Wrote Waltzing Matilda

Derek Parker has been an editor and critic, and is the author of eight previous biographies. Derek lives in Sydney with his wife Julia, with whom he has co-authored another 28 books on various subjects from astrology to travel.

Foreword

Introduction

1. Childhood in the Bush


2. The Birth of the Banjo


3. Waltzing Matilda


4. The Banjo at War


5. To China and England


6. The Banjo and the Breaker


7. Again to War


8. The Final Years

A Selection of Banjo Patersons Poetry

• Waltzing Matilda


• Clancy of the Overflow


• Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve


• In the Droving Days


• The Man from Snowy River


• Lost


• The Geebung Polo Club


• The Amateur Rider


• Last Week


• Johnsons Antidote


• Father Rileys Horse


• In the Stable


• Old Australian Ways


• Were all Australians Now


• White Cockatoos


• A Bush Christening


• Under the Shadow of Kileys Hill


• Brumbys Run

The Banjo Paterson Trail

Sources

Notes

Index