Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? - Thomas Kohnstamm

This non-fiction book follows the author, Thomas Kohnstamm, as he quits his well-paid city job in the US and heads off to South America as the Lonely Planet writer/up-dater for their Brazil guidebook. Subtitled 'a swashbuckling tale of high adventures, questionable ethics and professional hedonism' I spotted this book in my local library. I've thought on and off about being a travel writer, so this book had particular resonance for me and, I hoped, perhaps some answers. I was to be sorely disappointed. It starts promisingly as Thomas realises that his reasonably well-paid but boring, long-hour and soul-destroying job in a law firm on Wall Street is wasting his ...  Read the complete review