Nicholas Thomas
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Nicholas Thomas

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Nicholas Thomas, who grew up in Sydney, visited the Pacific Islands first in 1984. He has written many acclaimed books about art, history and cross-cultural encounter, and collaborated in exhibition and book experiments with artists including John Pule and Mark Adams. His books include Entangled Objects (1991), a celebrated exploration of the changing lives of things in the Pacific; Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook (2003); Islanders: the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010) which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize; The Return of Curiosity (2016), about what museums offer today, and most recently Voyagers: the settlement of the Pacific (2021). Thomas co-curated, with Peter Brunt and Adrian Locke, the landmark exhibition Oceania, shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris over 2018-19. Nicholas Thomas lives in the Corbières, in the south of France and in London with his partner Annie Coombes, and their son.
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    • The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
    • By: Nicholas Thomas
    • Narrated by: Mark Robertson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
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