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Dust on my shoes : an anthology of Pilbara childrens' writings

Setting out from Greece, Pinney travelled through the countries of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, over the snow-covered mountains of Afghanistan, across the plains of India to the steaming jungles of Assam and Burma. In between times, when he was not actually on the move, he took part briefly in the Greek civil war, worked as a rouseabout in a baked bean bar on the waterfront at Beirut, coloured photographs...in Teheran, and peddled orchids in Delhi. He travelled sometimes alone, sometimes with a Dutchman named Marchand, a "peerless companion" whose instinct for wandering was as strong as his own. Nearly always penniless, they scrounged lifts by every available means of transport; and when there was no transport they walked. They were often in trouble with the authorities, especially in those countries for which they had no proper visas; and they were often in pursuit of, or pursued by, girls whose charms were as various as their nationalities. In an endless succession of adventures and misadventures they were saved by their quick wittedness and ingenuity. Once in Burma, they fell in with a tribe of headhunters. How they escaped from that predicament is only one of the many exciting episodes that make up this book.

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