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A Million Wild Acres by Eric C. Rolls is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Million Wild Acres about?
Thirty years ago, a bomb landed in the field of Australian consciousness of itself and its land in the form of Eric Rolls' A Million Wild Acres . The ensuing explosion has caused extensive and heated debate ever since amongst historians, ecologists, environmentalists, poets and writers. Now reissued in a commemorative 30th Anniversary Edition for a new generation of readers and against the backdrop of renewed and urgent concern about climate change, it includes Tom Griffiths' seminal essay, 'The Writing of A Million Wild Acres', and a foreword by Les Murray drawn from his work 'Eric Rolls and the Golden Disobedience'. Here is a contentious story of men and their passion for land; of occupation and settlement; of destruction and growth. By following the tracks of these pioneers who crossed the Blue Mountains into northern New South Wales, Eric Rolls poet, farmer and self-taught naturalist has written the history of European settlement in Australia. He evokes the ruthlessness and determination of the first settlers who worked the land a land they knew little about.
Who reads A Million Wild Acres?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eric C. Rolls
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Australia Ltd
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780170053020
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
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