Headhunters on My Doorstep

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Headhunters on My Doorstep
Headhunters on My Doorstep
Author : J. Maarten Troost
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Publisher : Penguin
Language : English
Release Date : 20 August 2013
ISBN : 9781101621691
Pages : 304 pages
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Headhunters on My Doorstep by J. Maarten Troost Book PDF Summary

Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.

Headhunters on My Doorstep

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