After a time when I was already bored with much that travel writing books seemed to offer, or no longer offer – often with fatuous titles like Around Loch Lomond on a Pogo Stick and an accompanying goofy image of the cagoule wearing writer on the front cover – I came across Geoff Dyer’s Yoga for People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do It. Probably it was the title, or the fact that the garish cover reminded me of...