The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life

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  • Auteur: Clark, Doug Bock
    Contributor:

    Snyder, Jay

    Résumé:

    Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world.

    Genre: Science, Social science
    Original Publisher: [New York] , Hachette Book Group
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781549149672

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    1549149679

    ,

    9781549149689

    ,

    1549149687

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Snyder, Jay

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Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world.

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Science
Social science
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[New York]

Hachette Book Group

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