num_pages: 272
description: For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. Travel Writer for BrazilQUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED the ability to desert your entire previous lifeincluding well-salaried office job attractive girlfriend and basic sanity for less than minimum wageAttention to the skill to research northeastern Brazil including transportation restaurants hotels culture customs and language while juggling sleep deprivation nonstop nightlife and excessive alcohol consumption the imagination to write about places you never actually visit utilizing persuasion seduction and threats when necessary to secure a place to stay for the evening once your pitiable advance has been (mis)spent determination to overcome setbacks such as bankruptcy disillusionment and an ill-fated one-night stand with an Austrian flight attendantAs Kohnstamm comes to personal terms with each of these job requirements he unveils the underside of the travel industry and its often-harrowing effect on writers travelers and the destinations themselves. Moreover he invites us into his world of compromising and scandalous situations in one of the most exciting countries as he races against an impossible deadline.
language: English
title: Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
publisher: Crown