STRING BAG TRAVELLER
WHO WANDERS ALONE, by Peter Pinney; Angus and Robertson Ltd., Australian price Bite, [HIS is the second travel book by the author of Dust On My Shoes. Peter Pinney must have achieved as high a degree of freedom as anybody in this shrinking world. He travels with the bare minimum of luggage; in fact his necessities, including camera, all fit into one small ‘string bag. The book starts with Pinney in Trieste, and his description of the high feelings and bitter hatreds engendered by the electio:s makes interesting comparison with the freedom of speech and opinion enjoyed in New Zealand at election time. From there the . author makes his way to Yugoslavia, where he sees some Communist parades. In Greece Pinney finds a temporary job as night editor on the Athens News. Naturally, a man with such an outsize wanderlust finds it irksome to stay long in any one place, so we soon see him on the road again. His wanderings take him through Tunisia and Algeria, across the Sahara Desert into Nigeria, Kenya and Zanzibar. Pinney’s recurrent brushes’ with authority emphasise the suspicious frame of mind the world has got itself into. Why should a peaceable citizen not be free to roam at will? Immediately the reply is formed-how do we know he is a peaceable citizen? I found this a most enjoyable book, although the author’s tantalising descriptions of his hobo existence made me even more conscious of the narrow con-
fines of a normal job.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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253STRING BAG TRAVELLER New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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