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Back in the good old days, travel writing was simple. You set off on a quest to cross an unexplored wilderness, then came back and told everyone all about it. But then the uncharted bits dried up, forcing the "explorers" to adopt ever more obscure, some might say self-absorbed, quests. Tony Hawks lugged a fridge around Ireland, Tim Moore took a donkey round Spain, Dave Gorman went around the world looking for people who shared his name.
Even against such a backdrop, the subtitle of The Snow Tourist - "A search for the world's purest, deepest snowfall" - sounds startlingly esoteric. I mean, I love skiing, I spend...