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A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
Three Rivers Press
May 2008
On Sale: April 22, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0307394654
EAN: 9780307394651
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Non-Fiction
For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down
the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a
chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I
pen a note in my Moleskine that I will later recount in the
guidebook review, saying that the restaurant “is a pleasant
surprise . . . and the table service is friendly.” –Thomas
Kohnstamm, professional travel writer and author of numerous
Lonely Planet guidebooks WANTED: Travel Writer for Brazil
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
Decisiveness: the ability to desert your entire previous
life–including well-salaried office job, attractive
girlfriend, and basic sanity for less than minimum wage
Attention to detail: the skill to research northeastern
Brazil, including transportation, restaurants, hotels,
culture, customs, and language, while juggling sleep
deprivation, nonstop nightlife, and excessive alcohol
consumption
Creativity: the imagination to write about places you never
actually visit
Resourcefulness: utilizing persuasion, seduction, and
threats, when necessary, to secure a place to stay for the
evening once your pitiable advance has been (mis)spent
Resilience: determination to overcome setbacks such as
bankruptcy, disillusionment, and an ill-fated one-night
stand with an Austrian flight attendant As 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.
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