Getting Stoned with Savages
2006 book by J. Maarten Troost
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu is a 2006 non-fiction travelogue by J. Maarten Troost.
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| Author | J. Maarten Troost |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| ISBN | 0767921992 |
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.[1]
Reception
Critical reception for the book has been positive.[2]
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."[3]
Publishers Weekly mentioned it was a comic masterwork of travel writing.”[4]
