'Wild Colonial Greeks' by Peter Prineas, reviewed by Louise Wilson Jan 28, 2021
'Wild Colonial Greeks' by Peter Prineas Reviewed by Louise Wilson in Goodreads, Jan 28, 2021 I opened this book with a considerable degree of curiosity. Having closely studied the experiences of Australia’s earliest convict settlers, I wondered how the author would tackle this topic and what he would unearth. The title ‘Wild Colonial Greeks’ is a nice play on Frank Clune’s ‘Wild Colonial Boys’ but the Greeks in this fascinating book were not wild boys – they just lived in wild places. We follow their various adventures during Australia’s tough frontier period in the second half of the 19th century. I found it fascinating to learn about the different range of hardships suffered by Greek immigrants. Some of it was of their own making, if and when the ‘Mediterranean temperament’ cla...