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Title:
Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories (MP3)
Written by:
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh 
Read by:
Bill 'Swampy' MarshJacqui Katona 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
10 hours 16 minutes 
MP3 size:
446 MB 
Published:
November 28 2018 
Available Date:
November 28 2018 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489466143 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian; History 
Publisher:
ABC Audio 
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Yarns and memories that capture the experience of saying goodbye in the Australian bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.

Death doesn’t mean the end of memorable stories from the bush. In fact, often it’s just the beginning. We’re nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last ‘ashes to ashes and dust to dust’ bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a beat. I went down into the grave like that, hit the coffin and I bounded back out in one big leap. And I’m now standing back up beside the grave, trying not to shake, while I continue with the service: ‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust’. These tales from police officers, nurses, funeral directors, priests, gravediggers and those left behind, show that bush ingenuity comes to the fore when coping with corpses that won’t cooperate or can’t be found, bodies that don’t stay buried, and weather and wildlife trying to sabotage the best-planned funerals. This memorable and eye-opening collection of real-life accounts of passing away and saying goodbye in the Australian bush is by turns, poignant, bizarre, heartbreaking and hilarious.

'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn.'
The Gold Coast Bulletin