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

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Author:
Clark, Doug Bock
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date:
2019
Language:
English
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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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Anthropology
Coasts
Culture
Ecosystems
Electronic books
Environmental protection
Habitats
Indigenous peoples
Lamaholot (Indonesian people)
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Nature
Nonfiction
Social life and customs
Social sciences
Sociology
Whalers (Persons)
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap
Whaling
Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap

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