#10: The Last Whalers – with Doug Bock Clark

What is lost when a whole culture disappears? Award-winning
journalist Doug Bock Clark has written an epic book about the
Lamalerans, a tribe that lives on a remote, eastern Indonesian
island. For half a millennium, they have fed themselves by
hunting sperm whales, using small, handmade boats and handmade
harpoons. And until this day, this is the way they hunt and live.
But how much longer? How does an endangered tribe face the
challenge to navigate between ancient traditions and modern
civilization?


This is the story of Doug Bock Clarks bestselling book “The Last
Whalers” – and it is what this episode is about.


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