{"product_id":"2026200017076-secondhand-australian-bush-ballads","title":"Australian Bush Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the sun-scorched plains to the windswept high country, Australian Bush Ballads presents a definitive collection of the verse that gave voice to the working men and women who shaped an entire nation's identity. Edited by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing under the respected Australian Classics imprint, this anthology gathers the rousing, irreverent, and deeply human poems of the bush tradition — from the rollicking humour of drovers and shearers to the quiet melancholy of the swagman's long road — chronicling a way of life that is inseparable from Australia's cultural soul.\n\nStewart and Keesing bring formidable editorial authority to this collection, drawing on their combined expertise in Australian literature to curate a body of work that illustrates how ballad verse functioned not merely as entertainment, but as oral history, social commentary, and national myth-making. The tradition represented here — carried by poets such as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, and their lesser-known contemporaries — argues powerfully for the bush as the true crucible of Australian character. For anyone seeking to understand where Australia's literary voice was forged, this volume is an indispensable and thoroughly captivating starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269353185499,"sku":"2026200017076-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/47166440-153e-45cc-93e9-e69594b5367b.png?v=1788999225","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017076-secondhand-australian-bush-ballads","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}