Getting Stoned with Savages

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu is a 2007 non-fiction travelogue 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.{{Cite book|isbn = 0767921992|title = Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu|last1 = Maarten Troost|first1 = J.|year = 2006}}

Reception

Critical reception for the book has been positive.{{Cite book|isbn = 0767921992|title = Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu|last1 = Maarten Troost|first1 = J.|year = 2006}}

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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j-maarten-troost/getting-stoned-with-savages/|title = GETTING STONED WITH SAVAGES | Kirkus Reviews}}

Publishers Weekly mentioned it was a comic masterwork of travel writing.”{{Cite book|isbn = 0767921992|title = Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu|last1 = Maarten Troost|first1 = J.|year = 2006}}

References

Category:2007 non-fiction books