Great Australian bush funeral stories / Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
Material type: TextSeries: Great Australian storiesPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733338588 (paperback)Other title: Bush funeral storiesSubject(s): Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Country life -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Australia -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Anecdotes | Anecdotes. DDC classification: 393.930994 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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