| Title | The last whalers : the life of an endangered tribe in a land left behind / Doug Bock Clark. |
| Imprint | London : John Murray, 2019.©2019 |
| Author | Clark, Doug Bock. author. |
| Date | 01-01-2019 |
| Physical description | xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm still image text volume |
| Item | 305.8992 CLA (Copy 1) GFL-MONO 317861 INLIBRARY |
| Major subject | Indigenous populations Indonesia Whaling |
| Minor subject | Overseas item |
| LCSH | Whaling -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap. Whalers (Persons) -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap. Lamaholot (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs. Clark, Doug Bock -- Travel -- Indonesia -- Lamalerap. |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344). |
| ISBN | 9781529374131 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| 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 Kena Puka ; Against the leviathan -- Epilogue. |
| LCN | 1247210 |
| Item ID | 317861 |
| Database | Library Catalogue |