AustLit

'Tells of traditional Cape York life in verse and drawing.'

'This unique songbook draws from a well so much part of Australia's everyday landscape it was overlooked by our early folk song collectors. These are not songs about shearing, goldfields or bushrangers but rather they are songs actually sung by shearers, gold-miners and, in all probability, bushrangers like Ned Kelly and Ben Hall.

There are songs here about love and betrayal, family life, volunteer rifle brigades established during the Crimean War to repel the feared Russian invasion of Melbourne, and of brave Aussie boys going off to fight mother England's wars. There's Sweet Mary of Kilmore, Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake and Mrs McSorley's Twins, as song of the Blessed Zulu War, one of a wife gone off to be a Mormonite, and another referred to by Rudyard Kipling, for which scholars have searched in vain for over 100 years. They're all here, reconstructed from fragments published in the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial in 1940, drawn from the memories of the paper's readers. These are Australia's lost folk songs and it is time they were heard.' (Publisher's Blurb)

'The is the fourth volume of this work, and takes in the last period of bush exploration to more recent times, and the move from the beach to the mountain.'  (Production summary)

'The third volume in a four volume work, and takes in the period from 1963 to more recent times, exploring Cape York, collecting bush crafts and folk songs, and having a generally enjoyable time as an artist on a tropical beach.'  (Production summary)

'The second in a four volume work, this volume of Edwards' autobiography takes in the period from 1959 to 1965, exploring Cape York, collecting bush crafts and folk songs, and having a generally enjoyable time as an artist on a tropical beach.'  (Production summary)

'The first in a four volume work, this volume of his autobiography takes in the period from 1930 to 1951, from life in a rural backwater of Victoria to sleeping in a hammock in the Dandenongs, hand printing and the art world of Melbourne.'  (Production summary)

'All those little places around Australia that have won the Tidy Towns competition have had to thank Mister Spud for his work in bringing their town up to award winning standard.'(Publication summary)

'The story of one-arm Archy, the careless lion tamer.' 

'A children's story written for the children of Pormpuraaw school, Cape York.

'Part of a program producing local stories for Indigenous children.'  (Publication summary)

'The Overlander was once one of the most popular bush songs in Austrlalia.

'In this small book Ron Edwards has embellished the iconic ballad with beautifully executed watercolours, which have been based around the text.

'Includes varied versions that have been noted in publications about Folksongs through the years.'  (Publication summary)

These stories and drawings came from children of the Sacred Heart School, the Thursday island Primary School, and the Horn Island School". (Cover)

'Walter Bandicoot became famous as the first bandicoot to achieve National Acclaim as a singer.

'This is the first biography written about this remarkable animal who, up to this time, has been totally ignored by the critics.'  (Production summary)

'One of a series of childrens books that will suit all those young girls who are mad about horses.'  (Production summary)

'One of a series of childrens books that will suit all those young girls who are mad about horses.'  (Production summary)