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 enlarge | Author: J. Maarten Troost
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 6921
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0767915305
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.099681
EAN: 9780767915304
ASIN: 0767915305
Publication Date: June 8, 2004
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 A fun, quick, easy read that will make you laugh December 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a delightful book! It's funny, very informative without pushing an agenda or preaching, and basically gives you a slice of a life on a remote south pacific island. Since msot of us will never have this experience, it's great to have the highlights so wonderfully set forth in this little volume. Great vacation reading to pass the time on a plane or in a waiting room. It won't take long, it's easy reading, but expect to laughout loud now and then and get some looks from fellow passengers. Highly recommended, especially if you like to travel or read travelougues.
Quick fun read! December 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good friend from college was in Tonga for 3 years in the Peace Corps, and visiting him in the South Pacific was scary, incredible, confusing, enlightening, and hillarious. That's exactly how this book portrays the author's reaction to his time in Kiribati when his girlfriend accepted an assignment there with an NGO. If you want to learn about the history of the South Pacific, or the culture of South Pacific Islands, this is not the book. It doesn't aim to teach hard facts. If you want a book that is entertaining and also a little educational, this is it.
 Fun but there's better November 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Light fun read about a tropical hell hole plagued by faeces and NGO's. Just the book to read on a boring flight or in the airport lounge while you're travelling to another boring business meeting. If genuinely interested in the South Pacific then there's none better than "The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840" (Hardcover)
by Alan Moorehead
Great gift for the traveler November 13, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I laughed out loud! Draws attention to enviromental and political issues but doesn't preach.
The title has nothing to do with the story October 14, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoy this authors writing style as it is full of humor and commen sense that everyone can agree with. His other book, Getting Stoned with Savages, was also good and if you read you have to read the other!
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