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The Sex Lives of Cannibals

When J. Maarten Troost follows his girlfriend to Tarawa, a remote atoll in Kiribati, he arrives with the usual fantasy of island life: palm trees, empty beaches and an escape from the complications of the wider world.

Travel memoir

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