Living with Indigenous Whalers with Doug Bock Clark — WildFed Podcast #009

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In this episode:

Doug Bock Clark | Award-winning journalist & author of The Last Whalers

Podcast discussion:

• Doug’s story and how he came to document subsistence whaling

• On Lamalara and the Lamaleran lifestyle

• How the Lamalerans received Doug

• The Lamaleran language

• What it's like to hunt whales with the Lamalerans

• The whale’s awareness of the hunt, the whalers and the boat

• After the hunt

• Use of Spermaceti (whale oil)

• The taste of whale

• Common injuries in this hunt

• The future of the Lamalerans way of life

• Does Doug still keep in contact with the Lamalerans?

• Doug's hope for the future of the Lamalerans

• How to find Doug’s work

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Episode Resources: 

• Doug’s website

• Doug on Twitter @DougBockClark

• The Last Whalers: Three Years with an Ancient Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life

• Doug’s photoblog of life with the world's last true whalers

• Articles by Doug

• Save the Whale Campaign

• Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• Orca, Orcinus orca

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Meet doug Bock Clark

Doug Bock Clark is a writer whose articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, GQ, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He won the 2017 Reporting Award, was a finalist for the 2016 Mirror Award, and has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships, a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship. Clark has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, and ABC's 20/20. He is a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.