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A Million Wild Acres: 200 years of man and an Australian forest' is a non-fiction book written by Eric Charles Rolls (1923-2007). It was first published in Melbourne by Nelson in 1981. A Million Wild Acres is not just a regional history of what is now known as the Pilliga Scrub but also a history of European settlement in Australia.

The book won Age Book of the Year (1981), C.J. Dennis Prize and Talking Book of the Year.

'This will be seen as one of the great books about Australia. Eric Rolls gives the history of the forest the laconic power of an extended campfire yarn, spiced with the personal vision that comes from a lifetime of acute observation' Historian, Professor Weston Bate

Contents:
Maps

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Explorers and Livestock: Setting up the Board

2. The First Moves: A Difficult Game

3. The Squatters: The Rules are Ignored

4. Licences to Depasture Beyond the Limits: A New Game to New Rules

5. Runholders and Selectors: The Rules are Modified

6. The Forest Takes Over: The Game Ends

7. The Breelong Blacks: A Sinister Comedy

8. Timber and Scrub

9. Timbergetters and Scrub Dwellers: A Different Game

10. Mud Springs and Soda Plains

11. Animal Life: Insects, Reptiles and Others 12. Animal Life: The Mammals

13. The Animals: The Birds

14. Wood Chips and International Airports: A Businessmen's Game

Bird List

Plant List

Bibliography

Index

Notes and References
Watermark Literary Society http://www.watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au/

Wyndham, Susan. Author Rolls dies aged 84 Sydney Morning Herald 02/11/2007

Hanley, Penelope. Creative lives: personal papers of Australian writers and artists

Mosman Readers: Eric Rolls - A Million Wild Acres 26/01/2009