Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Thea Astley.

[1] The 8 stories in this collection are all narrated by Leverson who has been seduced by North Queensland's beauty and strangeness.

He observed both southern imports, as well as long-term Queensland residents, equally.

Lyn Frost, writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "gives an award-winning Australian author full rein.

Astley, a Queenslander, has returned there to write and discovered a whole new population...Astley conveys 'a lot of sad poetry' and humour about the place which is 'a kind of carpet-bagger's paradise'.