Joanna Kavenna (TLS)
In robustly original works, the philisophical travel writer Rory MacLean… joyfully elides the boundaries between fact and fiction; moreover, the notion that one might sustain such boundaries is dismissed as the most improbable fantasy of all.
Fergal Keane
Rory MacLean is more than a gifted writer. He is a man whose artistry is underpinned by a powerful moral sensibility.
Robert Macfarlane
There is, to my mind, no one who writes quite like Rory MacLean. If I were forced to reach for a comparison, I would pause over Bruce Chatwin as a possibility, but then probably stretch far, further back: to John Mandeville, to St Brendan and to Marco Polo. These men made their ‘wonder-voyages’ and returned […]
Jan Morris
This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to — across the span of his books — a great and continuing work of literature.
John le Carré
MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time.