Too Many Spears

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Too Many Spears
AuthorPeter Pinney
Estelle Runcie
LanguageEnglish
Genrebiography
Published1978
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication placeAustralia

Too Many Spears is a 1978 historical novel by Peter Pinney and Estelle Runcie about Frank Jardine and the settlement of Somerset, Queensland from 1864 to 1874. [1]

The Queensland Film Corporation funded development of a script based on the book. [2]

The Sun Herald called it "a larger than life tale". [3]

References

  1. ↑ 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 23 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "$5,000 grant". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 October 1978. p. 12.
  3. ↑ "Queensland magistrate cowed Cape York". The Sydney Morning Sunday Herald. 29 October 1978. p. 47.
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