The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2), credited to Andrew Barton Paterson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2) by Andrew Barton Paterson. Read in English by Arrowhead Aussie The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark". It also contains the poet's first two poems that featured in The Bulletin Debate, a famous dispute in The Bulletin magazine from 1892-93 between Paterson and Henry Lawson. The collection includes 48 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, along with a preface by Rolf Boldrewood, who defined the collection as "the best bush ballads written since the death of Lindsay Gordon" - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2)
• Author credits: Andrew Barton Paterson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 2:33:24

Catalogue topics

• bushballards
• australian outback

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Preface and Prelude — 2:36
2. 01 - The Man from Snowy River — 6:11
3. 02 - Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve — 8:19
4. 03 - Clancy of the Overflow — 2:26
5. 04 - Conroy's Gap — 6:31
6. 05 - Our New Horse — 6:01
7. 06 - An Idyll of Dandaloo — 3:45
8. 07 - The Geebung Polo Club — 3:17
9. 08 - The Travelling Post Office — 2:42
10. 09 - Saltbush Bill — 4:44
11. 10 - A Mountain Station — 2:04
12. 11 - Been There Before — 1:30
13. 12 - The Man Who Was Away — 2:01
14. 13 - The Man From Ironbark — 3:34
15. 14 - The Open Steeplechase — 4:07
16. 15 - The Amateur Rider — 4:20
17. 16 - On Kiley's Run — 4:30
18. 17 - Frying Pan's Theology — 1:09
19. 18 - The Two Devines — 2:42
20. 19 - In The Droving Days — 4:44
21. 20 - Lost — 3:01
22. 21 - Over the Range — 1:51
23. 22 - Only A Jockey — 2:49
24. 23 - How M'Ginnis Went Missing — 1:21

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