{"product_id":"a-million-wild-acres-9780868064642","title":"A Million Wild Acres","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67973163679797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0868064645","price":29.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780868064642.jpg?v=1794634039","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-million-wild-acres-9780868064642","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}