He was an instructor at American River College and Sierra College, both in California, and has also taught classes for the University of California at San Diego; the University of Hawaii at Hilo; the Kiriji Memorial College in Igbajo, Nigeria; and Adeola Odutola College in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria.The Omega Institute Faculty. He is the author of the Spiritwalker trilogy — Spiritwalker (1995), Medicinemaker (1998), and Visionseeker (2001) — as well as The Journey to the Sacred Garden (2003); Spirit Medicine (with Jill Kuykendall) (2004); Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman), The Bowl of Light (2011), and The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder (2016)    

GETTING STONED  WITH SAVAGES :

A TRIP THROUGH THE ISLANDS OF FIJI AND VANUATU

By J. Maarten Troost

Published by Broadway Books New York 2006 FIRST EDITION

This book is a soft cover in fine condition with 239 pages.

About Getting Stoned with Savages

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of beer on a daily basis, Maarten Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific. But as time went on, he realized he felt remarkably out of place among the trappings of twenty-first-century America. When he found himself holding down a job — one that might possibly lead to a career — he knew it was time for him and his wife, Sylvia, to repack their bags and set off for parts unknown.

GettingStonedwithSavages tells the hilarious story of Troost’s time on Vanuatu — a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves onkavaand are still known to “eat the man.” Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be found watching rugby in the house next door. And as they contend with new parenthood in a country rife with prostitutes and government coups, their son begins to take quite naturally to island living—in complete contrast to his dad.

MORE ABOUT == Jan Maarten Troost (known professionally as J. Maarten Troost; born 1969) is a Dutch-American travel writer and essayist.

Career​ = Troost is the author of a South Pacific trilogy - The Sex Lives of Cannibals (2004), GettingStonedwith Savages (2006), and Headhunters on my Doorstep (2013) - as well as a book about contemporary China - Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation (2008). His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Islands Magazine, The Cimarron Review, National Geographic Traveler and the Huffington Post.

Troost's first book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-Fiction. It has also been listed as one of the 25 Books to Remember by the New York Public Library, one of the 50 Greatest Travel Books of all Time by the Matador Network and others, and one of the 15 Funniest Travel Books Ever Written by CNN. Lost on Planet China was recognized as an Amazon Best of the Month Selection in August, 2008, while The New York Times and Booklist called Headhunters on my Doorstep one of the top travel books of 2013. His books have been translated into six languages.

From 1992-94, Troost worked as a correspondent for The Prague Post, where he wrote about everything from the dissolution of Czechoslovakia to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has also worked as a consultant to the World Bank.

Personal life​ = Troost was born in Groningen, The Netherlands in 1969, and is of Dutch-Czech descent. He was educated at Boston University (B.A.) and The George Washington University (M.A.). He has lived in the Netherlands, Canada, the Czech Republic, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the United States, where, after a long stint in California, he presently resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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