by Doug Bock Clark · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417977207
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«Los últimos balleneros» is Doug Bock Clark's journalistic chronicle, published by Libros del Asteroide in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
Between 2014 and 2017, journalist Doug Bock Clark lived among the Lamalerans on the Indonesian island of Lembata. He portrays the only community that still subsists on hunting sperm whales with bamboo harpoons and rowing boats, whose solidarity-based way of life in balance with nature is threatened by globalization.
Original title: The Last Whalers. Translation by Miguel Antón. No. 257 in the Libros del Asteroide collection. Lowell Thomas Silver Medal 2019.
For readers interested in narrative journalism, travel writing, and anthropology.
