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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
Publ&date New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019
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book jacket
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 ADULT  639.28 Clark    AVAILABLE

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Edition First edition
ISBN 9780316390620
0316390623
Descript xii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 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
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344)
Subject Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs