The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
Autor Doug Bock Clarken Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2019
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
whalersand
the
threats
posed
to
a
tribe
on
the
brink.
"An
amazing
account
.
.
.
Spectacular
and
deeply
empathetic."--Sebastian
Junger,The
Perfect
Storm."A
monumental
achievement."--Mitchell
Zuckoff,13
Hours."A
true
work
of
art
.
.
.
Lyrically
written
and
richly
observed."
--Michael
Finkel,The
Stranger
in
the
Woods."An
extraordinary
feat
of
reportage
and
illumination."--Leslie
Jamison,The
Empathy
Exams."From
the
very
first
lines,
I
was
riveted."--Robert
Moor,On
Trails."Intimate
and
moving."--Francisco
Cantú,The
Line
Becomes
a
River."Remarkable,
gorgeously
written."--Bronwen
Dickey,Pit
Bull.
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
subsistence
whalers.
They
have
survived
for
half
a
millennium
by
hunting
whales
with
bamboo
harpoons
and
handmade
wooden
boats
powered
by
sails
of
woven
palm
fronds.
But
now,
under
assault
from
the
rapacious
forces
of
the
modern
era
and
a
global
economy,
their
way
of
life
teeters
on
the
brink
of
collapse.
Award-winning
journalist
Doug
Bock
Clark,
one
of
a
handful
of
Westerners
who
speak
the
Lamaleran
language,
lived
with
the
tribe
across
three
years,
and
he
brings
their
world
and
their
people
to
vivid
life
in
this
gripping
story
of
a
vanishing
culture.
Jon,
an
orphaned
apprentice
whaler,
toils
to
earn
his
harpoon
and
provide
for
his
ailing
grandparents,
while
Ika,
his
indomitable
younger
sister,
is
eager
to
forge
a
life
unconstrained
by
tradition,
and
to
realize
a
star-crossed
love.
Frans,
an
aging
shaman,
tries
to
unite
the
tribe
in
order
to
undo
a
deadly
curse.
And
Ignatius,
a
legendary
harpooner
entering
retirement,
labors
to
hand
down
the
Ways
of
the
Ancestors
to
his
son,
Ben,
who
would
secretly
rather
become
a
DJ
in
the
distant
tourist
mecca
of
Bali.
Deeply
empathetic
and
richly
reported,The
Last
Whalersis
a
riveting,
powerful
chronicle
of
the
collision
between
one
of
the
planet's
dwindling
indigenous
peoples
and
the
irresistible
enticements
and
upheavals
of
a
rapidly
transforming
world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316390613
ISBN-10: 0316390615
Pagini: 384
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316390615
Pagini: 384
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Doug
Bock
Clark
is
a
writer
whose
articles
have
appeared
or
are
forthcoming
in
theNew
York
Times
Magazine,The
Atlantic,National
Geographic,GQ,Wired,Rolling
Stone,The
New
Republic,
and
elsewhere.
He
won
the
2017
Reporting
Award,
was
a
finalist
for
the
2016
Mirror
Award,
and
has
been
awarded
two
Fulbright
Fellowships,
a
grant
from
the
Pulitzer
Center
on
Crisis
Reporting,
and
an
11th
Hour
Food
and
Farming
Fellowship.
Clark
has
been
interviewed
about
his
work
on
CNN,
BBC,
NPR,
and
ABC's20/20.
He
is
a
Visiting
Scholar
at
New
York
University's
Arthur
L.
Carter
Journalism
Institute.
Recenzii
"An
immersive,
densely
reported,
and
altogether
remarkable
first
book...The
story
has
the
texture
and
coloring
of
a
first-rate
novel...Clark's
writing
is
supple
but
unshowy...He
closely
tracks
the
lives
of
many
Lamalerans,
male
and
female,
young
and
old,
and
he
weaves
their
stories
together
with
a
history
of
the
tribe
and
its
beliefs.
He
manages
to
make
this
tribe's
dilemmas
universal
--
no
small
feat...Clark
brings
empathy
and
literary
skill
to
bear.
This
is
a
humbly
told
book,
one
in
which
the
author's
first-person
voice
does
not
intrude.
This
humility
gives
the
book
an
organic
and
resonant
propulsion.
Accumulated
tensions
are
only
slowly
released.
Scenes
are
delivered,
not
summaries.
This
book
earns
its
emotions...You
finishThe
Last
Whalerswith
hope
for
the
Lamalerans,
and
hope
that
Clark
writes
many
more
books."—Dwight
Garner,
New
York
Times
"An immersive and absorbing chroniclethat takes the reader deep into the lives of this tribe and istold with a richness of interior detailthat renders their lives, and the choices they face, not just comprehensible but somehow familiar...Clark's writing about the ocean and its creatures is superb, so vivid that the reader can feel the sting of salt water up the nose...The magic in this work is Clark's decision to cede the story over to the Lamalerans themselves. In doing so, he captures the drama of the tribe as it attempts to navigate new opportunities that, while enticing, may bring about the extinction of their culture...Whether that culture will, in the end, withstand mounting pressures from the outside remains to be seen. If it doesn't,The Last Whalerswill at least document all that has been lost."—Gabriel Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle
"A forceful debut...Clark's prose soars...Furthermore, his sympathy for and devotion to his subjects is real: he speaks both Indonesian and Lamaleran and fosters an intimacy that allows him to disappear entirely in the telling of their story. He brings us into his characters' lives, showing us the rhythms of Lamalera and the day-to-day tensions the villagers face...Clark successfully depicts these people in their full human complexity rather than as primitive tropes...His finely wrought, deeply reported, and highly empathetic account is a human-level testament to dignity in the face of loss and a stoic adherence to cultural inheritance in the face of a rapidly changing world."—Tim Sohn, Outside Magazine
"Doug Bock Clark has delivered us an amazing account of an almost mythological fight--man versus leviathan--and in vivid prose he reveals the most profound truths about both how strong we are and how fragile we are. Part journalism, part anthropology,The Last Whalersis a spectacular and deeply empathetic attempt to understand a vanishing world. I absolutely loved this magnificent book."—Sebastian Junger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm
"The Last Whalersis a monumental achievement.With luminous writing and expert reporting, Doug Bock Clark provides a rare view into our shared human past, from exhilarating whale hunts to intimate family dramas. In doing so, he reveals the complex lives of men and women whose ancient culture teeters between the eternal teachings of the Ancestors and the pressures and enticements of modernity."—Mitchell Zuckoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La
"The Last Whalersis a true work of art. This lyrically written and richly observed book not only tells of the Lamalerans' spectacular feats of seamanship, but also demonstrates, with heartrending power, what all of us will lose when the march of modernity touches humanity's final tradition-ruled outposts."—Michael Finkel, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods
"The Last Whalersis an intimate and moving account of cultural extinction told on a profoundly human scale, an urgent and affecting plea for understanding and preserving our myriad identities and traditions before they become forever lost on the relentless road toward a monocultural world."—Francisco Cantú, author of the New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie Next pick The Line Becomes a River
"The Last Whalersis an extraordinary feat of reportage and illumination. It introduces a remote community and an endangered way of life, but it refuses to pander to familiar tropes of the exotic, instead bringing its subjects to the page in all their glorious complexity--in all their longing, triumphs, frustrations, and joys. Its gaze is global and intimate at once, tirelessly attuned to the tidal forces and subtle eddies of what it means to be alive."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams
"Equal parts rollicking adventure and careful anthropology,The Last Whalersopened up a fresh and fascinating world to me. From the very first lines, I was riveted."—Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration
"This is an important book.The Last Whalerspays a muscular and compassionate witness to our odyssey of being human at the time of the Anthropocene. It is an investigation into our complexities, our desires and boundaries and contradictions--what the book's heroes, the Lamalerans, aptly call 'a typhoon of life.'"—Anna Badkhen, author of Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
"Doug Bock Clark's remarkable, gorgeously written account of tribal honor, love, and sacrifice among hunter-gatherers reminds us in this age of breakneck development that the disappearance of indigenous societies diminishes us all."—Bronwen Dickey, New York Times bestselling author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
"This is a brilliant, exciting, and terrifying story that reveals the hidden world of Indonesian islanders who find themselves trapped between past and future--between hunting whales with bamboo spears to survive and an outside world poised to wipe them out."—Jack Hitt, author of Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain
"A gripping story of a community struggling for its very survival, and of the clash between ancient and modern worlds. Clark has a graceful, almost poetic writing style, and his vivid portrait of the Lamalerans and their way of life evokes in the reader a stirring image of a lost world, an ancient society that has somehow stayed virtually untouched by the march of time...until now."—David Pitt, Booklist
"A fascinating debut...Accessible and empathetic...Clark creates a thoughtful look at the precariousness of cultural values and the lure of modernization in the developing world."—Publishers Weekly
"An immersive and absorbing chroniclethat takes the reader deep into the lives of this tribe and istold with a richness of interior detailthat renders their lives, and the choices they face, not just comprehensible but somehow familiar...Clark's writing about the ocean and its creatures is superb, so vivid that the reader can feel the sting of salt water up the nose...The magic in this work is Clark's decision to cede the story over to the Lamalerans themselves. In doing so, he captures the drama of the tribe as it attempts to navigate new opportunities that, while enticing, may bring about the extinction of their culture...Whether that culture will, in the end, withstand mounting pressures from the outside remains to be seen. If it doesn't,The Last Whalerswill at least document all that has been lost."—Gabriel Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle
"A forceful debut...Clark's prose soars...Furthermore, his sympathy for and devotion to his subjects is real: he speaks both Indonesian and Lamaleran and fosters an intimacy that allows him to disappear entirely in the telling of their story. He brings us into his characters' lives, showing us the rhythms of Lamalera and the day-to-day tensions the villagers face...Clark successfully depicts these people in their full human complexity rather than as primitive tropes...His finely wrought, deeply reported, and highly empathetic account is a human-level testament to dignity in the face of loss and a stoic adherence to cultural inheritance in the face of a rapidly changing world."—Tim Sohn, Outside Magazine
"Doug Bock Clark has delivered us an amazing account of an almost mythological fight--man versus leviathan--and in vivid prose he reveals the most profound truths about both how strong we are and how fragile we are. Part journalism, part anthropology,The Last Whalersis a spectacular and deeply empathetic attempt to understand a vanishing world. I absolutely loved this magnificent book."—Sebastian Junger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm
"The Last Whalersis a monumental achievement.With luminous writing and expert reporting, Doug Bock Clark provides a rare view into our shared human past, from exhilarating whale hunts to intimate family dramas. In doing so, he reveals the complex lives of men and women whose ancient culture teeters between the eternal teachings of the Ancestors and the pressures and enticements of modernity."—Mitchell Zuckoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La
"The Last Whalersis a true work of art. This lyrically written and richly observed book not only tells of the Lamalerans' spectacular feats of seamanship, but also demonstrates, with heartrending power, what all of us will lose when the march of modernity touches humanity's final tradition-ruled outposts."—Michael Finkel, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods
"The Last Whalersis an intimate and moving account of cultural extinction told on a profoundly human scale, an urgent and affecting plea for understanding and preserving our myriad identities and traditions before they become forever lost on the relentless road toward a monocultural world."—Francisco Cantú, author of the New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie Next pick The Line Becomes a River
"The Last Whalersis an extraordinary feat of reportage and illumination. It introduces a remote community and an endangered way of life, but it refuses to pander to familiar tropes of the exotic, instead bringing its subjects to the page in all their glorious complexity--in all their longing, triumphs, frustrations, and joys. Its gaze is global and intimate at once, tirelessly attuned to the tidal forces and subtle eddies of what it means to be alive."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams
"Equal parts rollicking adventure and careful anthropology,The Last Whalersopened up a fresh and fascinating world to me. From the very first lines, I was riveted."—Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration
"This is an important book.The Last Whalerspays a muscular and compassionate witness to our odyssey of being human at the time of the Anthropocene. It is an investigation into our complexities, our desires and boundaries and contradictions--what the book's heroes, the Lamalerans, aptly call 'a typhoon of life.'"—Anna Badkhen, author of Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
"Doug Bock Clark's remarkable, gorgeously written account of tribal honor, love, and sacrifice among hunter-gatherers reminds us in this age of breakneck development that the disappearance of indigenous societies diminishes us all."—Bronwen Dickey, New York Times bestselling author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
"This is a brilliant, exciting, and terrifying story that reveals the hidden world of Indonesian islanders who find themselves trapped between past and future--between hunting whales with bamboo spears to survive and an outside world poised to wipe them out."—Jack Hitt, author of Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain
"A gripping story of a community struggling for its very survival, and of the clash between ancient and modern worlds. Clark has a graceful, almost poetic writing style, and his vivid portrait of the Lamalerans and their way of life evokes in the reader a stirring image of a lost world, an ancient society that has somehow stayed virtually untouched by the march of time...until now."—David Pitt, Booklist
"A fascinating debut...Accessible and empathetic...Clark creates a thoughtful look at the precariousness of cultural values and the lure of modernization in the developing world."—Publishers Weekly
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The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers
The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers