金石堂The epic story of the world’s last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to the way of life that has sustained them for five centuries
Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived and sailed with the Lamalerans across three years, takes us into the heart of this human drama. The center of the tribe’s life is the hunt, which will feed them throughout the lean season. Clark weaves together the stories of a fatherless whaler striving to earn his harpoon and support his ailing grandparents; two star-crossed lovers kept apart by a family feud; a bright young woman enticed by the opportunities available to her off-island; a new widower mourning his wife of many decades and struggling to hand down the Ways of the Ancestors to his sons; and a worried shaman trying to undo a deadly curse.
In The Last Whalers, we experience the tumultuous changes being wrought on indigenous peoples across the globe through a power and moving portrait of these unforgettable families. With breathtaking prose and brilliant, deeply empathetic storytelling that is possible only after years of immersive reporting, Clark has given us a story for the ages about the bravery of a tribe desperate to extend the survival of their remarkable culture beyond these pages.
