From the Front: A.B. (Banjo) Paterson's Dispatches from the Boer War

In 1899, Banjo Paterson, already a literary celebrity after the publication of The Man From Snowy River, left Australia for South Africa to cover the Boer War as a special correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Argus.

His dispatches, often written from the battle front itself, have been called the best descriptive writing of his career.