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Author:

Clark, Doug Bock, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Whaling--Lamalerap.--Lamalerap.
Whalers (Persons)--Lamalerap.--Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).

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.

ISBN:

0316390623
9780316390620

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1080272803

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)