The casuarina forest

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Published 20031202
ISBN: 9780733313509
Extent: 236 pp
Paperback (234 x 153mm)

The she-oak (casuarina) is a melancholy kind of tree, with feathery leaves that hang in fringes from short stems… [it] whispers and murmurs in the wind, making noises that early settlers compared
to a harp.

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