Best of Banjo Patterson is a comprehensive anthology of the ‘Banjo’s’ ballads and prose, selected by bibliographer Walter Stone.
No poet deserves the title of Australia’s national balladist more than Andrew Barton Paterson. Four generations of his countrymen have thrilled to the breakneck dash of ‘The Man from Snowy River’, wondered at the loneliness of ‘Clancy’s’ droving days and chuckled at the wry bush humour of ‘City of Dreadful Thirst’.
The ‘Banjo’ loved the bush and told the world about it. He lauded the courage and skill of bush horsemen and glorified the tough, honest virtues of bush life.
