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  Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

  by J. Maarten Troost

  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 infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of... (more)
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  The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

  by J. Maarten Troost

  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 Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was... (more)
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  The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

  by John Tayman

  Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway.... (more)
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  Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed

  by Kathy Marks

  Pitcairn Island -- remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf -- is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship in 1789. Shrouded in myth, the island was idealized by outsiders, who considered it a tropical Shangri-La. But as the... (more)
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  We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

  by Elizabeth Norman

  Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at the hands of the Japanese, they also demonstrated their ability to survive. Filled with the thoughts and impressions of the women who lived it, "every page of... (more)
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  Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds

  by Sabine Kuegler

  Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles of West Papua, Indonesia. There, as her family struggled for acceptance among the tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, Sabine spent her time swimming with crocodiles, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows, and chewing on pieces... (more)
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  Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society

  by Keith Stanley Chambers

  A compelling portrait of a Polynesian island community caught up in a world of change Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atoll's limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries,... (more)
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  Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology in Highland Papua New Guinea

  by David M. Hayano

  On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live the Awa, subsisting on root crops and raising domestic pigs. Like many cultures, the Awa must deal with and find solutions to the problems of human social existence: inevitable and rapid culture change, interpersonal squabbles, lying and deceit, adultery, sorcery, and unexpected death. They wait ambivalently for... (more)
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  TRIBE: ADVENTURES IN A CHANGING WORLD

  by BRUCE PARRY

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  Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

  by Tony Horwitz

  Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, meets island kings and beauty queens, and carouses the South Seas... (more)
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  Moon Handbooks Fiji

  by David Stanley

  If you want to travel to any of the 322 islands in the Fiji archipelago, Moon Handbooks Fiji has everything you need. From coverage of Fiji's top-rated resorts to the newest adventure tourism facilities and little-known backpacker areas, travelers of all interests will find the destination to suit them. This guidebook includes vivid descriptions of the islands' dazzling beaches, rainforests, and reefs, with a... (more)
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  Sex Lives of Cannibals

  by J. Maarten Troost

  Let me say at the top that I didn't have a particularly good reason for moving to Tarawa, a small island in the Republic of Kiribati. There was nothing Quaker-ish, Thoreau-ish or even Gaughin-ish about my taking a little leave from western civilisation which I though was fine mostly, particularly as manifested ion certain parts of Italy...To picture Kiribati, imagine that the continental US were to conveniently... (more)
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  A Taste of Guam

  by Paula Ann Lujan Quinene

  A Taste of Guam is a recipe book designed to share Chamorro culture through food, particularly Chamorro bbq. This book also includes the author’s collection of recipes: Other Island Favorites, Mix of America, Guam Desserts, and a Treasure Chest of Sweets.
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  Guadalcanal Diary

  by Richard Tregaskis

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  Coming of Age in Samoa

  by Margaret. Mead

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  Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island

  by JoAnne Van Tilburg

  Katherine Routledge is a central figure in the history of Easter Island, one of the world's most remote and mysterious locales. Born to a wealthy and prestigious English Quaker family in 1866, Katherine rebelled against their strict Victorian values, becoming one of the first female graduates of Oxford University and the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia. At the age of forty, Katherine married a... (more)
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  Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)

  by Richard Tregaskis

  history U.S.A. $14.95 Canada $22.50 This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent (at the time, one of only two on Guadalcanal), he lived... (more)