Edward Duyker

Edward Duyker

FAHA
Edward Duyker (2014)
Edward Duyker (2014)
Born (1955-03-21) 21 March 1955 (age 69)
Melbourne, Victoria
OccupationHistorian
NationalityAustralian

Edward Duyker FAHA (born 21 March 1955[1]) is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne.[2]

Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories – Tribal Guerrillas (1987),[3] The Dutch in Australia (1987)[4] and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia (1988)[5] – and numerous books dealing with early Australian exploration and natural science, among them biographies of Daniel Solander, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, Jacques Labillardière, François Péron and Jules Dumont d'Urville.[6]

  1. ^ Who's Who of Australian Writers, D W Thorpe, Port Melbourne 1995, p. 193-4.
  2. ^ Who's Who in Australia, Crown Content, Melbourne 2011, p. 677-8.
  3. ^ Duyker, Edward (1987). Tribal guerrillas : the Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite movement / Edward Duyker. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-561938-6 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Duyker, Edward (1987). The Dutch in Australia / Edward Duyker. Australian ethnic heritage series. AE Press. ISBN 9780867872156 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Duyker, Edward; Australian Mauritian Research Group (1988). Of the star and the key : Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia / Edward Duyker. Australian Mauritian Research Group. ISBN 9780959088342 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Wallace Kirsop, 'Edward Duyker, or the Achievements of Independent Scholarship', Explorations (Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations), no. 36, June 2004, pp. 17–18 & Greg Dening, 'Too Many Captain Cooks', Australian Book Review, June/July 2003, pp. 10–11.