Title The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life / Doug Bock Clark.

Publication Info.	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
	©2019

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).
Contents	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.
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.
Subject	Clark, Doug Bock -- Travel -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
	Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
	Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
	Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
	Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
	NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines.
	NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies.
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Whalers (Persons) (OCoLC)fst01174256
	Whaling. (OCoLC)fst01174284
	Indonesia -- Lamalerap. (OCoLC)fst01248042
Genre/Form	Nonfiction.
ISBN	0316390623
	9780316390620

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