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“j maarten troost”

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  • Getting Stoned with Savages

    A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes . . . and the world’s best narcotics.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 ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals

    Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Headhunters on My Doorstep

    A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals.Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Getting Stoned with Savages

    A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals Troost’s wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a hilarious account of life in the farthest reaches of the world.After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific—until he began to feel remarkably out of place in modern America—and he knew it was time to set off for parts unknown. Here he tells the ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Sex Lives of Cannibals

    Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    At age twenty-six, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.This book tells the hilarious story of what happens when he discovers that the island is not the paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Headhunters on My Doorstep

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Entertainment Weekly calls acclaimed author and essayist J. Maarten Troost a "funny, candid, and down-to-earth travel companion." Both witty and poignant, Headhunters on My Doorstep follows Troost as he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's path through the South Pacific. Somewhere between AA meetings in Tahiti and discovering how the Island of Merrymaking got its name, Troost reconnects with himself, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    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

    by J. Maarten Troost ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    Troost charmed listeners with his humorous tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific in The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages. When the travel bug bit again, he took on the world’s most populous and intriguing nation.As Troost relates his gonzo adventure—dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai, eating yak in Tibet, deciphering restaurant menus (offering local ... Read more

    $29.54 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Holy Cow!

    An Indian Adventure

    by Sarah Macdonald ...
    Narrated by Kate Hosking ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!' and gives the country, and him, the finger. Eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah's life is posted to India, she quits her dream job as a national ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Tales of a Female Nomad

    Living at Large in the World

    by Rita Golden Gelman ...
    Narrated by Rita Golden Gelman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in Los Angeles to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986, she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Merde Factor

    How to survive in a Parisian Attic

    by Stephen Clarke ...
    Narrated by Tom Allen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going très wrong:He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen.His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike - and it could be all his fault.His Parisian ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Sellevision

    A Novel

    by Augusten Burroughs ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network.Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of "Slumber Sunday Sundown" accidentally exposes himself in front of twenty million ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook