MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time.
~ John le Carré
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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

Geography of Heaven: Travels to the Hereafter
As many of you know, when my wife Katrin died aged 55, I couldn’t imagine life without her. So I set out to find where she had gone. Over five