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 Thomas Nelson in 1981.
A Million Wild Acres is not just a regional history of what is now known as the Pilliga forest, but also a history of European settlement in Australia.
Contents Explorers and Livestock: Setting up the Board The First Moves: A Difficult Game The Squatters: The Rules are Ignored Licences to Depasture Beyond the Limits: A New Game to New Rules Runholders and Selectors: The Rules are Modified The Forest Takes Over: The Game Ends The Breelong Blacks: A Sinister Comedy Timber and Scrub Timbergetters and Scrub Dwellers: A Different Game Mud Springs and Soda Plains Animal Life: Insects, Reptiles and Others Animal Life: The Mammals The Animals: The Birds Wood Chips and International Airports: A Businessmen's Game
Reception The book won The Age Book of the Year (1981), and Talking Book of the Year.
Notes https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/eric-rolls-and-the-pilliga/10594212 Watermark Literary Society 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 Rolls later qualified this book's debated overall position on Australian tree densities and land clearing.
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