The Last Whalers
Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780316390620
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Cultures Cla | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).