{"product_id":"a-million-wild-acres-by-eric-rolls-9780868064642","title":"A Million Wild Acres","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty years ago, a bomb landed in the field of Australian consciousness of itself and its land in the form of Eric Rolls' \u003cem\u003eA Million Wild Acres\u003c\/em\u003e. The ensuing explosion has caused extensive and heated debate ever since amongst historians, ecologists, environmentalists, poets and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow 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 \u003cem\u003eA Million Wild Acres\u003c\/em\u003e', and a foreword by Les Murray drawn from his work 'Eric Rolls and the Golden Disobedience'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485794746604,"sku":"9780868064642","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780868064642-a-million-wild-acres.jpg?v=1775715656","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-million-wild-acres-by-eric-rolls-9780868064642","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}