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Donald Alaster Macdonald (6 June 1859 – 23 November 1932) was an Australian journalist and nature writer. Macdonald was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, the elder son of Donald Macdonald and his wife Margaret, ''née'' Harris. Macdonald was educated at the Keilor state school where he became a pupil-teacher in 1876. He later joined the Corowa Free Press and then the Melbourne Argus newspaper in 1881. On 26 February 1883 at Scots Church, Melbourne, Macdonald married Jessie Seward – their only daughter was born in 1885.〔 Hugh Anderson, '(Macdonald, Donald Alaster (1859–1932) )', ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, p. 249. Retrieved 14 November 2010 〕 Writing under the pen name 'Observer', Macdonald established himself as a cricket and Australia rules football commentator. Macdonald "completely revolutionized cricket reporting" — he made the reports more vivid than the earlier over by over style. Macdonald was first Australian war correspondent at the South African War; during the war he was besieged at Ladysmith. Macdonald's despatches from Ladysmith were eventually sent to Australia and published in the ''Argus''. Later they were reprinted in a book ''How we kept the flag flying : the story of the siege of Ladysmith'' (1900).〔 Macdonald established a weekly column in the ''Argus'' called 'Nature Notes and Queries'; in 1909 it was extended to 'Notes for Boys'. Macdonald also published the ''Bush Boy's Book'' (1911), enlarged in four more editions in 1927–33; a Nature book for children, ''At the End of the Moonpath'' (1922); and his daughter made a selection of his writings in ''The Brooks of Morning'' (1933). Macdonald also compiled the ''Tourists' Handbook of Australia'' (1905) and wrote a novel, ''The Warrigal's Well'' (1901), in collaboration with John F. Edgar.〔 Macdonald died at Black Rock, Victoria (a seaside suburb of Melbourne), on 23 November 1932, and was survived by a daughter, Mrs Elaine Whittle.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Alaster Macdonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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