{"id":737,"date":"2008-04-14T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/14\/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:19:12","slug":"do-travel-writers-go-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/14\/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, no, because it doesn’t exist. But if there were a hell, this one might go<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Lonely Planet author says he plagiarized or made up portions of the popular travel guidebooks and dealt drugs to supplement poor pay, an Australian newspaper reported Sunday.<\/p>\n

Thomas Kohnstamm, who has written a book on his misadventures, also said he didn’t travel to Colombia to write the guidebook on the country because “they didn’t pay me enough,” The Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n

“I wrote the book in San Francisco [California],” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph. “I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

Kohnstamm has worked on more than a dozen books for Lonely Planet, including its titles on Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Chile and South America.<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

Kohnstamm’s book, “Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism,” is set for release next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a big fan<\/a> of the LP series, but I’m not surprised by this – too many people putting together too much info for this not to happen. That said, they’ve never failed me in any substantial way – the closest was a completely wrong ferry schedule in Panama. And I should have checked with the ticket office, anyway.<\/p>\n

Thanks to DT for sending this in.<\/p>\n

(Huh. Interesting, the things you find when you search for your own entries. Here’s a story<\/a> on the very same thing, using my LP bookshelf photo. And here’s someone<\/a> who has decided to just cut and paste my entry on India into his or her blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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