Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last whalers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1080272803

Responsibility statement

Doug Bock Clark

Sub title

three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification