Getting Stoned with Savages

A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

J. Maarten Troost

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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
15 August 2006

Travel & holiday

On the heels of his bestselling Sex Lives of Cannibals, the sharply observed, hilarious account of the author's return to the South Pacific, where he attempts to establish himself on the remote islands of Fiji and Vanuatu with his wife and baby.

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of beer on a daily basis, Maarten Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific. But as time went on, he realized he felt remarkably out of place among the trappings of twenty-first-century America. When he found himself holding down a job-one that might possibly lead to a career-he knew it was time for him and his wife, Sylvia, to repack their bags and set off for parts unknown.

Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story of Troost's time on Vanuatu-a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to ""eat the man."" Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be found watching rugby in the house next door. And as they contend with new parenthood in a country rife with prostitutes and government coups, their son begins to take quite naturally to island living-in complete contrast to his dad.

By: J. Maarten Troost
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9780767921992
ISBN 10: 0767921992
Pages: 239
Publication Date: 15 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. MAARTEN TROOST recently returned from his years in Vanuatu and Fiji. He, his wife, and their two children live in Sacramento, California.

Reviews for Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

Praise for The Sex Lives of Cannibals A comic masterwork of travel writing. --Publishers Weekly Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts his debut in the company of some of today's best travel writers. --Elle A delightful, self-deprecating, extremely sly account of life in a place so wretched it gives new, terrible meaning to getting away from it all. --National Geographic Adventure