Eucalyptus
Registered by CTTG-Library of Modbury, South Australia Australia on 10/21/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by CTTG-Library from Modbury, South Australia Australia on Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The eucalyptus is Australia's emblematic tree, existing in hundreds of varieties, some extremely rare, and it is Bail's fancy that a man called Holland, living on a remote estate in New South Wales, planted on his land a collection of all such trees known to man. Having performed this odd, obsessive act, he then set, for his beautiful and only daughter Ellen, one of those traps essential to fairy tales: only a man who could correctly name each tree in his vast collection could have her hand in marriage. The problem was that Ellen didn't much care for the man who looked as if he was going to win; meanwhile another man came wandering through the trees and started spinning her wondrous tales. Bail's aim in this extremely odd book is elusive. Each of the many short chapters has a eucalypt heading, and the book is full of quaint touches of lore and fey observations about nature, landscape and art, not to mention a number of short, sometimes tantalizing tales.
Journal Entry 2 by CTTG-Library at Civic Park in Modbury, South Australia Australia on Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (10/25/2008 UTC) at Civic Park in Modbury, South Australia Australia
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Released as part of the City of Tea Tree Gully Library's Parks Alive event!
Released as part of the City of Tea Tree Gully Library's Parks Alive event!