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The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Item details
- ISBN: 9780316390620
- ISBN: 0316390623
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Physical Description:
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xii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "January 2019"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 Kéna Pukã ; Against the leviathan -- Epilogue. |
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