#452
Title: Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
Author: J. Maarten Troost
Publisher: Broadway Books
Year: 2006
239 pages
Much better than the author's The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, which featured neither cannibals nor sex lives. Troost indeed gets stoned (on kava), though perhaps one might suggest "indigenes" rather than "savages." This is a slicker narrative than Cannibals, and not as interesting. I would still rather know what Troost's wife is doing than what Troost is doing, but she's largely absent in this memoir/travelogue as well.
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