Format:
Book
Author:
Clark, Doug Bock, author.
Title:
The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life / Doug Bock Clark.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Description:
xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).
ISBN:
9780316390620 (hardback)
0316390623 (hardback)
Other Number:
1080272803
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3661988
Call Number:
639.2/8095986
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
5