Eucalyptus by Murray Bail they’ve always had their ancestral

they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut—a constant touchstone—and the complicated

Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit

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Published by Random House 1999

Eucalyptus by Murray Bail they’ve always had their ancestral*Used like new Published by Vintage Canada 1999 The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each of the hundreds of gum trees on his property. Ellen is uninterested in the many suitors who arrive from around