Peter Pinney (19221992) was an Australian writer.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.
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. His papers are at the University of Queensland.Peter Pinney Papers at UQ
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)
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External links Peter Pinney at AustLit