Come along and meet William A. Douglass, as he talks about his latest book - "Australianuak: Basques in the Antipodes’"
We are pleased to notify that Burdekin Library will be hosting a ‘Meet the Author’ event with Australian author, William A. Douglass on Monday 18 November at 5:00pm.
William A. Douglass is a professor emeritus of Basque Studies and founder of the William A. Douglass Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Douglass has authored, co-authored, and edited about two dozen books and 200 articles.
Douglass’ visit to the Burdekin is based on the launch of his latest book – ‘Australianuak: Basques in the Antipodes’ – a contribution to immigration studies in general and to our understanding of the Basque diaspora in particular. The book focuses on the formal recruitment of Basques as manual sugar canecutters in the late 1950s and the early 1960s in tropical Queensland’s Far North.