Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu is a 2007non-fictiontravelog byJ. Maarten Troost.
Following a job at theWorld Bank, Troost longs for his times spent inKiribati and leaves theUnited States with his wife. The book is a humorous account of the author and his wife's time on thePacific island nations ofVanuatu andFiji. It is a follow-up to Troost's first workThe Sex Lives of Cannibals.[1]
Critical reception for the book has been positive.[2]
Kirkus Reviews said of the travel essays, "Living on a South Pacific island could be grim, horrifying and revolting, Troost writes, but never less than interesting."[3]
Publishers Weekly mentioned it was a comic masterwork of travel writing.”[4]
