Dr Colin Dyer
Honorary Senior Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
Books
Dyer, Colin (2010). Histoire de Saint-Anne-d'Entremont, du XI eme siecle a nous jours. France: Colombelles.
Dyer, Colin (2009). The French Explorers and Sydney 1788-1831. St Lucia QLD: University of Queensland Press.
Dyer, C. L. (2005). The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
Dyer, C. L. (2000). A Frenchman's Walk across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897-1899. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Journal Articles
Dyer, Colin (2019). Rounding Cape Horn in 1826 and 1836: The personal accounts of two French explorers. International Journal of Maritime History, 31 (2), 389-401. doi: 10.1177/0843871418822435
Dyer, Colin (2018). Governor Gipps' unwelcome guest: French captain du Petit-Thouars' visit to Sydney in 1838. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 104 (2), 165-176.
Dyer, Colin (2018). Translation of Going ashore in the Anambas Islands: accounts by Hyacinthe de Bougainville and Cyrille Laplace in 1825 and 1831. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 91 (2), 143-152. doi: 10.1353/RAS.2018.0021
Dyer, Colin (2017). Three French accounts of nineteenth-century Singapore and Penang. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 90 (313), 97-116. doi: 10.1353/ras.2017.0022
de Bougainville, Hyacinthe and Dyer, Colin (2017). Malacca in 1824: The Eye-witness Account of Captain Hyacinthe de Bougainville. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 90 (312), 131-137. doi: 10.1353/ras.2017.0008
Dyer, Colin (2016). The Aboriginal people in Sydney as seen by Captain Abel du Petit-Thouars, 24 November to 9 December 1838. Aboriginal History, 40, 207-214.
Dyer, Colin (2016). From happiness to havoc: the Aboriginal Bruny Islanders before settlement by the British, as witnessed by French explorers, 1792-1802. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 102 (1), 32-44.
Dyer, Colin (2015). California on the eve of the Gold Rush: the sojourn of Captain Laplace in 1839. California Cultures, 3, 1-50.
Dyer, Colin (2013). Polynesians in the cross-fire: the Hawaiians caught between French Captain Abel Du Petit-Thouars and American missionary Hiram Bingham, Honolulu, 1837. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 122 (1), 69-79. doi: 10.15286/jps.122.1.69-79
Dyer, Colin (2013). The Aboriginal people in Sydney as seen by Eugene Delessert, December 1844 to August 1845. Aboriginal History, 37, 93-110.
Dyer, Colin (2011). Two French explorers on the Kamchatka Peninsula: Jean Francois La Perouse (1787) and Abel-Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1837). КЛИО: Журнал для ученых, 7 (58), 115-119.
Dyer, Colin (2006). (Book Review) Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 158-159. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Dyer, C. L. (2004). Relations between Aboriginal men and women as observed by French explorers, 1792-1831. University of Queensland Historical Proceedings, 15, 1-12.
Dyer, C. L. (2002). The indigenous Australians in Sydney and its environs as seen by French explorers, 1802-1831. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 88 (2), 147-161.
Dyer, C. L. (2000). The Governor's Noble Guest: Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825. By Marc Serge Rivitranslator and editor (Carlton: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xxvii + 291, 15 illustrations. $49.95. The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 46 (2), 288-288.
Dyer, Colin (1999). (Book Review) Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia's Backyard. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45 (1), 144-145. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00059
Dyer, Colin (1973). French attitudes to nuclear experiments in the South Pacific, 1971-1973. Australian Outlook, 27 (2), 172-178. doi: 10.1080/10357717308444469