With titles like The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages, how can a traveler not be intrigued by J. Maarten Troost's books? The weirdly-wandering Dutchman's latest offering is Headhunters on My Doorstep. Bizarre adventures told with wry humor!
This time Troost, instead of following his wife's jobs to Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and Vanuatu, is off on his solo adventure following parts of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels through the South Pacific. The remote Marquesas and Tuamotos, Tahiti, Kiribati Redux, and Samoa are his haunts on this venture while wife and sons are left behind in Washington, D.C.
Troost somehow manages to enmesh - and extricate - himself from Terrible Troubles, like the stomping of a giant centipede (back in Vanuatu days). When you read his tales, the tribulations of travel become laugh-out-loud hysteria.
Love this guy! Can't quite match him with tales of my own, and doubt I'll ever keep up with him, except vicariously through his matchless tales.
Have a great big belly laugh. And be glad he's not along for your ride. However does he manage to get himself into such scrapes? No matter what your own tale is, Troost can probably top it. No matter how dreadful your trip turns, Troost's misadventures will make light of yours. Totally fun read.
May your road rise to meet you - with laughs but without misadventures!
Ann
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