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Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their mid ...Show more
Gauguin and Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
$84.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual be ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages by Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
Anyone who loves history, science, art, or classic tales of adventure will be enthralled by the journeys of Captain James Cook and his intrepid crews. Three epic voyages took them to South America, the Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Siberia, the East Indies, and across the vast Indian O ...Show more
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
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