与野蛮人一起发呆。斐济和瓦努阿图群岛之旅

 与野蛮人一起发呆。斐济和瓦努阿图群岛之旅

J.马腾-特罗斯特

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通过《食人族的性生活》，马腾-特罗斯特确立了自己作为最吸引人和最具原创性的旅行作家之一的地位。与野蛮人一起嗑药》再次展现了他的机智和富有感染力的发现之乐，对世界上最遥远的地方的生活进行了旁敲侧击的描述。在塔拉瓦岛度过了两年艰苦的日子，每天与野狗、挥舞砍刀的邻居和缺乏啤酒的情况作斗争，马腾-特罗斯特并不急于返回南太平洋。但随着时间的推移，他意识到自己在二十一世纪美国的环境中感到非常不适应。当他发现自己有一份工作--一份可能导致事业发展的工作--他知道是时候让他和他的妻子西尔维娅重新收拾行囊，出发去未知的地方了。《与野蛮人打交道》讲述了特罗斯特在瓦努阿图的搞笑故事--一个崎岖的岛屿群，当地人以卡瓦为食，至今仍以 "吃人 "闻名。特罗斯特陷入了一个又一个有趣的不幸事件中，他与台风、地震和巨型蜈蚣作斗争，并很快发现自己被卷入了岛民悠闲的、不穿衣服的生活方式中。当西尔维娅怀孕时，他们去了稍微文明一点的斐济，一个堕落的天堂，在那里可以发现当地的酋长在隔壁的房子里看橄榄球。当他们在一个充斥着妓女和政府政变的国家里为人父母时，他们的儿子开始很自然地接受岛上的生活--与他的父亲完全相反。

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

J. Maarten Troost

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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.Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story of Troost’s time on Vanuatu—a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and 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.