Waltzing Matilda : the secret history of Australia's favourite song
An expose of two cover-ups: one the death of a swagman by a billabong; the other, a torrid affair between Banjo Paterson and his fiancee's best friend, and how the two events come together in Australia's best-loved national song
ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9781742377063, 1742377068
780413544
Australia's song for the world
Backdrop for a song
Clancy and the Man from Snowy River
There once was a swagman
Up rode the squatter
Banjo
Old Billy boiling
Warrnambool to Winton
Australia for the Australians
Fight begins
Building of the Rodney
Dagworth burns
Cover-up
Christina's tune
Love affair
'Jolly Swagman' song
And his ghost may be heard