It is forty years since A Million Wild Acres was published by Thomas Nelson in 1981. Forty is a good biblical number and invites this new review. A Million Wild Acres is a remarkable Australian prose work and is as significant today as in 1981. It should be on a serious Year 12 and university syllabus, for several reasons. Indeed, it has been a text on courses in Australian environmental history. Given that many of us have not read widely or at all on the environmental history of New South Wales, this book has the credentials and content to be…