A Million Wild Acres  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 The Age Book of the Year (1981), C.J. Dennis Prize and Talking Book of the Year.   https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/eric-rolls-and-the-pilliga/10594212  Watermark Literary Society https://web.archive.org/web/20110219162616/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   Rolls later qualified this book's debated overall position on Australian tree densities and land clearing. What lies beyond us? The literature of landscape http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/what-lies-beyond-us3f3a-the-litertaure-of-landscape/5853552