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62) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When eight whaling ships became icebound at Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska, in January 1898, a rescue mission blessed by President McKinley was launched to bring the 275 stranded men reindeer meat to fend off starvation and scurvy. The Overland Relief Expedition drafted Tom Lopp, a missionary and advocate of turning native hunters into self-sufficient reindeer herders, who left his wife, Ellen, and children in Cape Prince of Wales, 55...
Author
Series
Ghostly graphic adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, Joey and Tank board a whaler that is on display and soon find themselves part of its ghostly crew.