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Gender: Male
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1 As Far as Possible Nicholas Thomas , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 4 November no. 5666 2011; (p. 8)
— Review of Captain Cook : Master of the Seas Frank McLynn , 2011 single work biography
1 The Uses of Captain Cook: Early Exploration in the Public History of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia Nicholas Thomas , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa 2006; (p. 140-155) In this essay, the author explores how 'key aspects of Cook's encounters with Maori and Indigenous Australians have been imagined and re-imagined.'(Thomas, N. 2006 The Uses of Captain Cook: Early Exploration in the Public History of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia)
1 1 y separately published work icon Discoveries : The Voyages of Captain Cook Nicholas Thomas , London : Allen Lane , 2003 Z1090968 2003 single work biography
1 1 y separately published work icon Voyage Round the World (International) assertion Georg Forster , Nicholas Thomas (editor), Oliver Berghof (editor), Honolulu : University of Hawaii , 2000 Z918576 2000 single work prose
1 y separately published work icon Bad Colonists : The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke Louis Becke , Vernon Lee Walker , Nicholas Thomas (editor), Richard Eves (editor), Durham : Duke University Press , 1999 Z519656 1999 anthology correspondence criticism Contains letters from Louis Becke and Vernon Lee Walker, addressed mainly to their mothers. The editors' preface describes the book as 'a work of experimental history' exploring, firstly, the degeneration of the self in tropical environments 'beyond civility' nnd, secondly, the significance of personal letters in 'self-fashioning'. The letters are accompanied by extensive commentary.
1 Fear and Loathing in the Postcolonial Pacific Nicholas Thomas , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 51 no. 2 1992; (p. 265-276)
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