Peter Pinney Explained

Peter Pinney (19221992) 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]

Select writings

Travel books

• Dust on my Shoes (1952)
• Who Wanders Alone (1954)
• Anywhere But Here (1956)
• The Lawless and the Lotus (1963)
• Restless Men (1966)
• To Catch a Crocodile (1976)

Novels

• Ride the Volcano (1960)
• Too Many Spears (1978)
• 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)

External links

• Peter Pinney at AustLit

Notes and References

1. Richard White and Claire Petrie, 'Pinney, Peter Patrick (1922–1992)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pinney-peter-patrick-18951/text30565, published online 2016, accessed online 4 February 2024.
2. Web site: Dust on My Shoes – Peter Pinney. Tony. Wheeler. 25 August 2021.
3. https://manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au/index.php/uqfl288 Peter Pinney Papers