THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER and 3 ELEPHANT POWER by BANJO PATERSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Banjo Paterson was an Australian bush poet, author, and journalist whose works focused on the rural and outback areas, especially the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. He wrote "the Man From Snowy River", which was transformed into a movie, in 1890, and Australias national theme Waltzing Matilda in 1805. He wrote many humorous stories, one of which tells of a character who terrorized rural areas with his car in the days when cars were a new and usually feared rolling contraption that often proved dangerous to dogs and sheep. Our narrator for 3 Elephant Power is Erika Tippett.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales and a two-story special |
| 0:35.9 | presentation from Australian poet, novelist, and short story writer Banjo Patterson |
| 0:42.0 | who is best known as the author of Waltzine Matilda, Australia's National |
| 0:46.8 | Song. |
| 0:48.8 | Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson are considered two of Australia's most beloved classic writers. |
| 0:55.0 | Their work told of the hardships and joys of scratching out life in an often unforgiving |
| 0:59.6 | and barren land in the days before a real civilization came to the island country of Australia. |
| 1:07.0 | Life then was centered around raising livestock, sheep and cattle, and it was a tough life on men and women. |
| 1:14.8 | Our first selection is a poem called The Man from Snowy River, |
| 1:18.7 | which describes life in the Australian Outback |
| 1:21.3 | and conveys a sense of pride that Australians have for their |
| 1:24.3 | country. The second story is narrated by our favorite Australian narrator Erica |
| 1:29.6 | Tippett. The title is Two Elephant Power and this story captures a time when cars first started to show up |
| 1:36.7 | on the dirt roads of Australia's backcountry. Cars which, depending upon the personality |
| 1:42.3 | of the driver, provided a very rough time for animals |
| 1:45.7 | and people who got in the way. |
| 1:49.1 | And first, the man from Snowy River and other verses, preface by Rolf Boulder Wood. |
| 2:02.2 | It is not so easy to write ballads descriptive of the Bushland of Australia as on light consideration would appear. |
| 2:10.0 | Reasonably good verse on the subject has been supplied in sufficient quantity, but the |
| 2:15.2 | maker of folk songs for our newborn nation requires a somewhat rare combination of gifts |
| 2:20.8 | and experiences. |
| 2:23.5 | Doward with the poet's heart, he must yet have passed his |
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