all the way from Darwin." Not one is successful. Men try and fail: there is the gentle schoolteacher who "had correctly named eighty-seven eucalypts and was doing it well when he went blank at the fatly handsome Jarrah up against the fence behind the house" and the New Zealander who "came up against, and was defeated by, one of the many Stringybarks." Old men, young men, commercial travelers, sheep-shearers-even a "smiling Chinaman. After all, she was living on a property in western New South Wales."Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen. It leaves you hungering for more of its author's strange and spry imaginings."-The New York Times Book Review, "The idea that Holland's daughter was like the princess locked in the tower of a damp castle was of course false. You will never forget what is at the heart of this book."-Michael Ondaatje, author of the English Patient "Peerless. Murray Bail is the warmest and most quick-witted of storytellers.
It leaves you hungering for more of its author's strange and spry imaginings."'The New York Times Book Review, There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such sly and swerving humor. You will never forget what is at the heart of this book."'Michael Ondaatje, author of the English Patient "Peerless.
'There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such sly and swerving humor.
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