J. Maarten Troost, Author . Broadway $12.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1530-4
At 26, Troost followed his wife to Kiribati, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. Virtually ignored by the rest of humanity (its erstwhile colonial owners, the Brits, left in 1979), Kiribati is the kind of place where dolphins frolic in...
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J. Maarten Troost, Author . Broadway $12.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2199-2
Using a format similar to that of his previous work, The Sex Lives of Cannibals
, Troost creates another comical and touching travel memoir. Troost and his wife, Sylvia, move from busy Washington, D.C., to Vanuatu, a nation made up of 83 islands in...
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J. Maarten Troost, Author Broadway Books $22.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2200-5
Troost, J. Maarten. 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. Broadway. 2008. c.304p. TRAV~ Troost tackles modern China...
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J. Maarten Troost. Gotham, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-592-40789-7
Newly sober travel writer Troost retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's route through the South Pacific from the Marquesas to Samoa in this evocative, funny literary memoir. He recounts his voyage upon the Aranui III cargo ship rooming with a seasick "fam
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