Tahir Shah Fully booked Eric Newby, former travel editor of the Observer, became hooked on travellers' tales when he was eight. It is unlikely.
Travel is one of the principal activities of the human race.
If the sales of travel books falter, it will be because the sale of books generally is in decline. All worth a book if the travellers know how to write. Another reason why the travel book may continue in popularity is that in many parts of the world travel has become too dangerous to take part in, except vicariously. It introduced me to a world I had not seen, most of which I was never going to see, much of it a world that was no more. The World of Arthur Mee looked a wonderful one to me.