Peter Pinney
{{Short description|Australian writer (1922–1992)}}
Peter Pinney{{efn|He is not to be confused with another Australian writer called Peter Pinne, who was also a television executive.}} (1922{{snd}}1992) 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.{{cite web|url=https://tonywheeler.com.au/dust-on-my-shoes-peter-pinney/|first=Tony|last=Wheeler|title=Dust on My Shoes – Peter Pinney|date=25 August 2021}} His papers are at the University of Queensland.[https://manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au/index.php/uqfl288 Peter Pinney Papers] at UQ
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=Travel books=
- Dust on my Shoes (1952){{Citation
| title=Book Review: Hitch-hiking Across Asia
| journal=ABC Weekly
| date=20 September 1952
| location=Sydney
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1395273772
| access-date=5 February 2024
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- Who Wanders Alone (1954){{Citation
| author1=Australian Geographical Society.
| author2=Australian National Publicity Association.
| author3=Australian National Travel Association.
| title=BOOKS
| journal=Walkabout
| volume=21
| number= 4
| date = 1 April 1955
| location=Melbourne
| publisher=Australian National Travel Association
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-741477303
| access-date=5 February 2024
| via=Trove
}}
- Anywhere But Here (1956)
- The Lawless and the Lotus (1963)
- Restless Men (1966){{Citation
| title=At Home With World Wanderer Pinney
| journal=Pacific Islands Monthly
| volume= 37
| number = 12
| date= December 1, 1966
| location=[Sydney
| publisher=Pacific Publications
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-338573426
| access-date=5 February 2024
| via=Trove
}}
- 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
- [https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A4743?mainTabTemplate=agentWorksBy Peter Pinney] at AustLit
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Category:20th-century Australian writers
Category:Australian travel writers
Category:20th-century Australian novelists
Category:People educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
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