Description:Television artist Lionel Long and bush balladist Graham Jenkin have collaborated in the compilation of a fine collection of Australian songs, accompanied by comments on the words and the tunes, and on the environment in which they were first sung.Song of convicts, of bushrangers, of drover, of goldminers, of cattlemen and sheepmen, and of other bush workers of the early days... all are here to catch the imagination of readers and set them strumming and singing.
Favourite Australian Bush Songs is a notable addition to the literature of Australia's past. And many of the songs are still heard at times along droving tracks in the far Outback and around lonely campfires in the echoing bush...