The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost | Travel | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0767915305 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0767915305 Global Overview for this book
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Product description from amazon.co.uk:
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs--decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish--all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).
Very funny!
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs--decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish--all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).
Very funny!
Released 12 yrs ago (3/29/2012 UTC) at Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
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Exchange book. Now on the way to frutz in Luxembourg. Had to use surface mail so it will take a while to get there.
The book has arrived safely! Thanks for sending it klaradyn!
Released 6 yrs ago (3/17/2018 UTC) at Mersch / Miersch, Kanton Mersch Luxembourg
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You have found a traveling book!
Took me a long while to get to read this one... A nice, light read.
Now shipped of to jäseneltä thy who had this on her wishlist.
Happy reading from around the world!
Took me a long while to get to read this one... A nice, light read.
Now shipped of to jäseneltä thy who had this on her wishlist.
Happy reading from around the world!
Thank you for the wishlist book and bc stickers, frutz! It's for my book from every country challenge:)
living in an Pacific island is definitely not life in a paradise. But the book about it was funny.
PKS-miittiin
I got this wishlist book via Bookgeo at tonight's meet-up. Thank you!