But this author of best-selling travelogues including The Great Railway Bazaar looks perfectly at home on the leather sofa in the foyer of a luxury downtown hotel He enjoys the literary star treatment He receives from his publishers.

• 不过这位撰写了包括《铁路大集市》一书在内的畅销游记的作家，坐在市中心豪华大酒店门厅的真皮沙发上，一样显得十分舒坦自在，他挺喜欢出版商给予他的文化明星待遇。