MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time.
~ John le Carré
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My Small Part in David Bowie’s Legacy
Iggy Pop, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Geldof, Ian Drury, Queen’s Brian May and 18,000 others are whistling and wailing, stamping their feet, hollering for the starman to return. It’s Earls Court

Hallo Berlin-bei-Schottland!
After a flurry of events in England, I’m en route to Scotland to speak at St Andrews University. After that, even before finishing a single dram of Talisker single malt,

Places Unseen
It’s an astonishing, beautiful idea – that the unseen exists. A world just beyond our reach. When my wife Katrin died, I couldn’t imagine life without her. So I set