Edward Duyker (born 21 March 1955) is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne, Victoria.
Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories — Tribal Guerrillas (1987), The Dutch in Australia (1987) and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia (1988) — 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.
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