Travel writing isn’t obsolete, if anything, it is even more interesting today - the amount of attention required by the author to travel, imbibe the surrounding, observe, and write long passages is a human endeavour unlike any other.

Chris Arnade’s “Walking the world” has grown into a solid institution of its own over the year. The latest: Australia has an even greater coastal versus fly-over country divide than the US, since most Australians literally only ever fly over the outback