Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost
I guess I've been reading more lately than before. I felt like this was a great book to read after Guns, Germs, and Steel. I didn't plan it out that way, it just turned out that way. I learned a lot about the history of those Pacific island countries in that book, so I think that it let me appreciate this book more. If reading GGS is like watching the History Channel, TSLOC is like watching The Daily Show on Comedy Central. It's really funny, yet not that mindless, devoid of substance type of humor.
So what's this book about? Basically it's this guy's personal account of two years he spends in Kiribati, (pronounced keeribas, like a fobinized "Gilberts") a remote country made of small atolls out in the Pacific ocean. He goes there thinking what could be better than lounging around in a tropical paradise, but of course, life there turns out to be much different. Read this. It's a pretty quick read, educational, and very funny... it turns out the "sex lives of cannibals" doesn't competely refer to just South Pacific islanders...
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the title of this book alone is enough to peak my curiosity and read it
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