Waltzing Australia: Stories and Ballads From Under an Outback Sky by Tim Borthwick

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with no external stickers. Stickers and stamps on inside pages. Scratches to front endpage from removal of date due slip are partially covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Body text and binding are still very good.

A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them - in the tradition of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. This is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who has spent much of his life working on the land.

Featuring fifty poems and stories that tell of the heartbreak, humour and hard yakka that come with living and working in the bush - many of which were written on long days droving sheep and cattle, on the back of a motorbike, or by the fading light in camp hundreds of miles from anywhere.

These evocative bush verses and the tales behind them shine light on characters and events from Australia's pioneering past as well as embracing Tim's own experiences in the outback.