A House of Trees Author:Joan Colebrook Joan Colebrook was born and brought up on the virgin tablelands of northern Australia where the rain forest surrounded her family's rough-hewn house. This lyrical and discerning memoir tells of a country that was rich in beauty and contradiction: aboriginal gunyahs and afternoon tea; monsoons and Victrola dances; bush missionaries and an Anglic... more »an girls' school. The fourth of six children born to cultivated, pioneering parents, the author came to recognize in herself the same forces that were shaping her youthful country.« less