Apr 14, 2008
Lonely Planet's bad trip
Lonely planet guidebook author Thomas Kohnstamm admits that he made up and plagiarized large parts of his books. Of his book on Colombia, he says, “I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate”, claiming he didn’t get paid enough to actually travel there.
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