As a big fan of J. Maarten Troost’s first book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, I was very pleased to see that he has a new book out. Called Getting Stoned with Savages : A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, it promises to be a winner. I laughed out loud reading Sex Lives, and recommended it to several folks. Troost is witty and informative, the two best qualities in a travel writer, well, these things and that he writes damn well, too. The new books seems to cover familiar Troostian territory as he and his wife, Sylvia, move from Washington, D.C., to Vanuatu, a nation of 83 islands in the South Pacific. There, Troost goes in search of cannibals and endures daily life in a far and distant land. Hilarity no doubt ensues.
My review of Sex Lives can be fond here, should you have any interest. But I’ll be trying my damnedest to get my hands on a copy of the new book and will review it.