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Art in Oceania - A New History by Peter Brunt, Deirdre Brown & Nicholas Thomas
$155.00 NZD
Category: Art
The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of ...Show more
Artefacts of Encounter - Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories by Nicholas Thomas (ed.); Julie Adams (ed.); Billie Lythberg (ed.); Maia Nuku (ed.); Amiria Salmond (ed.)
$76.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies or belie ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
$30.00 NZD
$37.99 (21% off)
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
Discoveries: - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
$29.95 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: No Category
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
Hiapo: Past and Present in Niuean Barkcloth by John Pule; Nicholas Thomas
$59.95 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Reading Level: very good
Niuean tapa cloth (hiapo) is a brilliant art form. This is the first book on the subject. Paintings range from abstract patterns to detail renderings of plants, people and ships. Features over 100 colour photographs. First published October 2005.
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$69.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art as 'primitive', mysterious and shrouded in taboo, but Nicholas Thomas, in looking at and beyond the famili ...Show more
Tattoo - Bodies, Art & Exchange in the Pacific & the West by Nicholas Thomas & Anna Cole & Bronwen Douglas
$63.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: Good
Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term tattoo entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook s voyages in ...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
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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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