Who Wanders Alone
Who Wonders Alone is a 1954 travel book by Peter Pinney. The book was a best seller.
Reception
The Daily Telegraph wrote "Pinney is an above-average j ournalist, with graphic, sometimes eloquent, powers of description and a keen historical sense reminding you that he is Gilbert Murray's grand-nephew."The Adeladie Advertiser wrote "Hardy, tough and egotistical, yet plucky and observant. Peter Pinney has
many interesting comments on both people and places—often the people and places the ordinary traveller does not see."
The Sun wrote "the gusto of the writing, the swift movement and the richness of description, free it from any effect of artificiality."
The Sun Herald wrote "Pinney is an engaging fellow... very much an Australian type that is he is recognisable as one of the many Australian types; for he is casual, careless, detached, rather cynical, immensely resourceful in an entirely personal way. And he shows again a light and pleasant touch in his prose... it all makes a pleasing, saucy, devil-take-you stay-at-homes sort of story."
The Newcastle Sun wrote "Pinney is a very detached young man and his accounts of what he saw are
particularly interesting although his views, which are not obtruded, are no more valuable than those
of any other casual visitor who is here today and gone tomorrow. Still, he has a capacity for meet-
ing unusual people anddescribes them well."
The Advertiser wrote "Hardy, tough and egotistical, yet plucky and observant. Peter Pinney has many interesting comments on both people and places—often the people and places the ordinary traveller does not see."
Walkabout wrote "As a travel writer Mr Pinney runs rings round most of his modern contemporaries from this part of the world. Admittedly, his rich material helps him; but he has the knack of sharing vividly with his readers not merely the preposterous things he does, but the atmosphere, the colour and circumstance of the scene in which he finds himself, as well. He is essentially alive and questing; and his book exudes an acute and sophisticated sense of humour which, alas, is all too rare in Australian writing of this sort."