Eucalyptus

Murray Bail

first published 1998 Knopf Canada, 1998 hardcover 255 pages

A Harvest book

On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different eucalyptus trees on his land, filling in the landscape, making a virtual outdoor museum of trees. When Ellen is nineteen, he announces his decision: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each and every gum tre...

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Editions we hold

Eucalyptus paperback · 2007 · Picador · 264 pages · 9780312427313
Eucalyptus edition · 1999 · Harcourt Brace · 261 pages
Eukalyptus edition · 1999 · Pax forlag · 191 pages · 9788253020396
Eucalyptus hardcover · 1998 · Harvill Press · 264 pages
Eucalyptus hardcover · 1998 · Knopf Canada · 255 pages · 9780676971774
Eucalyptus edition · 1998 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 255 pages

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