J. Maarten Troost

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Groningen, Netherlands

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Jan Maarten Troost (known professionally as J. Maarten Troost) (born 1969 in The Netherlands) is a Dutch-American travel writer and essayist.

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.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 44,695 ratings · 4,108 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific 3.87 avg rating — 20,432 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu 3.86 avg rating — 12,120 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid 3.77 avg rating — 10,695 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story 3.41 avg rating — 1,439 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by J. Maarten Troost

“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

tags: contentment, escapism, happiness, paradise, travel, wanderlust

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“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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“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

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Polls

BoTM- September- Book Set on an Island- 1st poll

Top 5 books move onto the second round

Moloka'i

by Alan Brennert

16 votes, 23.9%

The Summer Girls

by Mary Alice Monroe

10 votes, 14.9%

Ember Island

by Kimberley Freeman

9 votes, 13.4%

Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

8 votes, 11.9%

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

7 votes, 10.4%

An Untamed State

by Roxane Gay

5 votes, 7.5%

The Island

by Victoria Hislop

3 votes, 4.5%

The Shore

by Sara Taylor

3 votes, 4.5%

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

by Sarah Lark

3 votes, 4.5%

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

by J. Maarten Troost

2 votes, 3.0%

Island of a Thousand Mirrors

by Nayomi Munaweera

1 vote, 1.5%

67 total votes

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