J. Maarten Troost





J. Maarten Troost

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J. Maarten Troost is the author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. He spent two years in Kiribati in the equatorial Pacific and upon his return was hired as a consultant by the World Bank. After several years in Fiji, he recently relocated to the U.S. and now lives with his wife and son in California.


Average rating: 3.84 · 20,386 ratings · 2,685 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
The Sex Lives of Cannibals:...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 10,756 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions
Getting Stoned with Savages...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 5,220 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
Lost on Planet China: The S...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 4,484 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
Headhunters on My Doorstep:...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — expected publication 2013

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“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”
J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”
J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”
J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

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