num_pages: 480
description: Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
language: English
title: The Tree of Man
titlecomplete: The Tree of Man
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Modern Classics, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 1968
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, awardedAt: -473356800000
name: ALS Gold Medal
publisher: Vintage