The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
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Clark, Doug Bock,
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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"January 2019"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).
Description
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.

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Clark, Doug Bock -- Travel -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Nonfiction.
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.