The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
Author: Clark, Doug BockEdition: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 368Details: In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink. A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of Lowell Thomas Travel Book Award Silver MedalFinalist for William Saroyan International Writing PrizeLonglisted for Mountbatten Award for Best Book Telegraph Best Travel Books of the YearHampshire Gazette Best Books of 2019One of the favorite books of Yuval Noah Harari, author of the classic bestseller Sapiens, "on the subject of humanity's place in the world." (via Airmail) On a volcanic island in the Savu Sea so remote that other Indonesians call it "The Land Left Behind" live the Lamalerans: a tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who are the world's last subsis