Entertainment Weekly calls acclaimed author and essayist J. Maarten Troost a funny candid and down-to-earth travel companion. Both witty and poignant Headhunters on My Doorstep follows Troost as he retraces Robert Louis Stevensons path through the South Pacific. Somewhere between AA meetings in Tahiti and discovering how the Island of Merrymaking got its name Troost reconnects with himself his family and the beauty of life.