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The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life / Doug Bock Clark.
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Title:The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life / Doug Bock Clark.
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Author/Creator:Clark, Doug Bock, author.
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Published/Created:New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: SH383.5.I5 C53 2019
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Whaling--Indonesia--Lamalerap.
Whalers (Persons)--Indonesia--Lamalerap.
Lamaholot (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Lamalerap (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form:Nonfiction.
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Edition:First edition.
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Description:xii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344).
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ISBN:9780316390620
0316390623
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One 1994-2014
1. Lamaleran Odyssey
2. At Play in the Graveyard of Whales
3. Child-Eating Eel and the Curse of the Black Goat
4. Cleansing of Harmful Language
5. This, My Son, Is How You Kill a Whale
6. Laughter
7. Way of the Lamafa
pt. Two 2015
8. New Year
9. Nekat
10. Marriage
11. In the Middle of the Typhoon of Life
pt. Three 2016
12. New KenaPuka
13. Against the Leviathan.