In Grantlee Kieza's landmark biography, we discover the real Andrew
Barton 'Banjo' Paterson. Australia's most celebrated poet and
storyteller helped define our national traits of loyalty, mateship and
laconic humour, but he did and was so much more. A soldier in the Boer
War and WWI, the balladeer bushman was also a solicitor, newspaper
editor, columnist, war and foreign correspondent and ABC broadcaster.
Close friends with many luminaries of his time, including Rudyard
Kipling, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Haig, Breaker Morant and Henry
Lawson, the tennis ace, notorious ladies man, brilliant jockey and
celebrated polo player was eye witness to many of the great moments in
Australian 20th century history.
Extensively researched and written with Kieza's trademark verve, Banjo
is a rich and captivating portrait of our most celebrated poet and a
truly great Australian.
