Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu is a 2007 non-fiction travelog by J. Maarten Troost.
Summary
Following a job at the World Bank, Troost longs for his times spent in Kiribati and leaves the United States with his wife. The book is a humorous account of the author and his wife's time on the Pacific island nations of Vanuatu and Fiji. It is a follow-up to Troost's first work The Sex Lives of Cannibals.
Reception
Critical reception for the book has been positive.
Kirkus Reviews said of the travel essays, "Living on a South Pacific island could be grim, horrifying and revolting, Troost writes, but never less than interesting."
Publishers Weekly mentioned it was a comic masterwork of travel writing.”
References
- Maarten Troost, J. (2006). Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. ISBN 0767921992.
- Maarten Troost, J. (2006). Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. ISBN 0767921992.
- "GETTING STONED WITH SAVAGES | Kirkus Reviews".
- Maarten Troost, J. (2006). Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. ISBN 0767921992.
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