食人族的性生活：在赤道太平洋漂流

 食人族的性生活：在赤道太平洋漂流[1]是作者J. Maarten Troost於2004 年撰寫的 遊記，描述了他和他的女朋友在太平洋島國基里巴斯的塔拉瓦環礁上生活的兩年。

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在書中，特羅斯特描述了他和他的女友西爾維婭如何適應南太平洋偏遠小島上的生活，並在那裡建立了自己的生活。特羅斯特描述了他們所生活的不尋常的人，奇異而陌生的當地風俗，以及當地人對特羅斯特自己認為不尋常的行為的反應。

在那兩年裡，作者適應了以魚為主的飲食、極端高溫和效率低下的政府，作者將其描述為“椰子斯大林主義——儘管斯大林至少有所作為。” 他描述了頻繁的電力和水資源短缺，以及生活在如此偏遠的小島上的許多其他特質。

與此同時，特羅斯特也挑戰了美國人對自己歷史的自滿情緒，他很少去記住在二戰期間在塔拉瓦戰役中犧牲的許多士兵，以及許多沒有考慮到歷史的外國援助人員和顧問。島民的真實需求或當地文化。

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這本書之後是《與野蠻人一起被石頭砸死》（2006 年），這是 J. Maarten Troost 和他的妻子 Sylvia 的進一步冒險。

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific[1] is a 2004 travelogue by author J. Maarten Troost describing the two years he and his girlfriend spent living on the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.

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In the book Troost described how he and his girlfriend Sylvia adjusted to life on the remote small island in the South Pacific, and built a life for themselves there. Troost described the unusual people they lived with, and bizarre and unfamiliar local customs, as well as the local people's reaction to Troost's own behaviour that they regarded as unusual.

In those two years, the author adjusted to an over-whelming fish-based diet, extreme heat, and an ineffective government, which the author describes as "Coconut Stalinism - though Stalin, at least, got something done." He described frequent electrical and water shortages, along with many other idiosyncrasies of living on such a small and remote island.

At the same time, Troost also challenges American complacency toward its own history, by doing so little to remember the many troops who died in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II, and the many foreign aid workers and consultants, who failed to consider the islanders' real needs or local culture.

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This book was followed up by Getting Stoned with Savages (2006), the further adventures of J. Maarten Troost and his wife, Sylvia.