Edward Duyker

Who is Edward Duyker?

Edward Duyker is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne.

Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories – Tribal Guerrillas, The Dutch in Australia and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia – and numerous books dealing with early Australian exploration, among them critically acclaimed biographies of Daniel Solander, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, Jacques Labillardière and François Péron. Much of his work seeks to redress the Anglo-centrism of Australian history and he has made a major contribution to knowledge and understanding of the French voyages to the Indian Ocean and Pacific in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.