Peter Pinney
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Peter Pinney[a] (1922 – 1992) was an Australian writer.[1]
Pinney was educated in Port Moresby and at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview. During World War II, he served in the Middle East and New Guinea. After the war, he began writing travel books starting with Dust on my Shoes.[2] His papers are at the University of Queensland.[3]
Travel books
- Dust on my Shoes (1952)[4]
- Who Wanders Alone (1954)[5]
- Anywhere But Here (1956)
- The Lawless and the Lotus (1963)
- Restless Men (1966)[6]
- To Catch a Crocodile (1976)
Novels
- Road in the Wilderness (1952)
- Ride the Volcano (1960)
- Too Many Spears (1978) - historical novel about Frank Jardine
- The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary (1988)
- The Glass Cannon: A Bougainville Diary 1944-45 (1990)
- If It's Two O'Clock its Muckadilla (1991)
- The Devil's Garden (1992)
