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Getting Stoned With Savages - A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (Paperback)
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Getting Stoned With Savages - A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (Paperback)
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List price R412
Loot Price R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
You Save R95 (23%)
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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.
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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.
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