The Lawless and the Lotus is a 1963 travel book by Peter Pinney.
The Sydney Morning Herald criticised its "corn, cliches." The Evening Post called it "a strong book about life".
The Hull Daily Mail called it "lively, often amusing and extremely entertaining."
The Canberra Times called it "entertaining travel writing".
The Bulletin called it "an entertaining log-book of a raw unCook-ed tour of some of the worldâÂÂs sunshiney isles from the Caribbean to the Pacific, author Peter Pinney appears as an engaging, rascally hobo, a sort of combination of James Bond, Ned Kelly and a lighter-fingered member of some civic liberties group on the run."