I'll be honest, I judged this book by its cover. The title caught my attention as I was thumbing through the stacks while on a day out with my nephews. And when I held a few different selections up to them to choose, they told me to get this one. In hindsight I wish I would've left them to their own book and chosen on my own.

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? is a mildly interesting story of how Thomas Kohnstamm essentially became a guide book writer. He was disillusioned in his day job in N...