A Dinner For Five

An Outback Marriage

by Andrew Barton PATERSON (1864 - 1941)

A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND Banjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivating, are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. An Outback Marriage tells of a young Englishman on a tour of the colonies, who gets more than he bargained for when he sets out to find the heir to a fortune. This is the story not of one marriage but several, bringing the whole of colonial society - from the squattocracy to cattle rustlers - to vivid, unforgettable life. No writer better captured the heart of early Australia better than Paterson - the landscape, the weather, the trials and the earthy humour that was the key to survival.

Listen next episodes of An Outback Marriage:
A Chance Encounter , A Coach Accident , A Consultation At Kiley's , A Lawyer In The Bush , A Legal Battle , A Nurse And Her Assistant , A Proposal And Its Results , A Walk In The Moonlight , At The Homestead , Considine , Hugh Goes In Search , In Push Society , In The Buffalo Camp , Mr. Blake Breaks His Engagement , Mr. Blake's Relations , No Compromise , Races And A Win , Red Mick and His Sheep Dogs , Some Vistors , The Coming of The Heiress , The Old Station , The Real Certificate , The Rivals , The Road To No Man's Land , The Saving Of Considine , The Second Search For Considine , The Wild Cattle