A review by apechild
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail

4.0

Short thoughts on bookcrossing website by me in 2006... I got this second hand from a charity shop, so really I'm part way on the book's ownership story.
I love eccentric stories, and this one is a wonderful tale from Australia. It's about a man obsessed with Eucalyptus trees, who has all the hundreds of varieties growing on his property. He offers the hand of his daughter to the man who can correctly name every tree...
It has a real sense of modern day fairystory to it.