Many critics insist that the answer is no.
He is not really a travel writer at all. With an ego the size of Ayer's Rock, he seems to think God's Own Country needs the help of a patronising American. You can hate him, but you can't ignore him, as Sanderson proved. He reviewed the new Bryson alongside another book about Australia, Michael Davie's Anglo-Australian Attitudes. Sanderson much preferred the latter, yet devoted only 15 per cent of his review to it.