Audio Book Description:
At age twenty-six, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flipflops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything andmoving to the endsw of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. This is the hilarious story of what happens when he discoversthat the island is not the paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles with stifling heat, deadlybacteria, polluted seas, and toxic fish, in a country where the only music to be heard is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend, Sylvia,contend with alarmingly large critters, a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis), and such bizarrelocal characters as "Half-DeadFred" and the Poet Laureate of Tarawa, a British drunkard who`s never written a poem in his life.
