The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life

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The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life

Clark, Doug Bock, (author.).

Summary:

A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316390620
ISBN: 0316390623
Physical Description: xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "January 2019"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).
Formatted Contents Note:: The Lamalerans -- Maps -- A note on the text -- Prologue: The apprentice's lesson -- Part one. 1994-2014. The Lamaleran odyssey ; At play in the graveyard of whales ; The child-eating eel and the curse of the black goat ; The cleansing of harmful language ; This, my son, is how you kill a whale ; The laughter ; The way of the Lamafa -- Part two. 2015. A new year ; Nekat ; The marriage ; In the middle of the typhoon of life -- Part three. 2016. The new Kéna Pukã ; Against the leviathan -- Epilogue.