Rory MacLean je kanadský autor, který se stal jedním z nejvýraznějších a nejdobrodružnějších britských cestopisů. Jeho díla zkoumají místa a kultury s osobitým stylem a hloubkou, což čtenářům nabízí neotřelé pohledy na svět. MacLeanova próza je ceněna pro svou expresivitu a schopnost proniknout pod povrch běžných cestovatelských příběhů. Jeho knihy jsou považovány za literární počiny, které ukazují, proč literatura stále žije.
Kréta – ostrov splněných snů.
Jednoho větrného jarního rána v prastaré krétské vesnici obklopené horami, spadl Rory MacLean na zem. Před několika měsíci mu zemřela matka, a ze žalu se zrodila touha: touha postavit létající stroj, lehký jako pírko. A tak se MacLean na ostrově, ze kterého vzlétli Daidalos a Ikaros, vrátil zpátky ke kořenům, do dávných řeckých mýtů, a s pomocí velkorysých, avšak nepředvídatelných sousedů a spousty vína postavil letadlo, na němž se pokusil vzlétnout…
Missing Lives tells the stories of fifteen missing individuals, documenting the efforts of the organizations and professionals who work to release the bereaved from the anguish of their uncertainty by locating burial grounds, exhuming bodies and piecing together scattered skeletons. It aims to give a voice to the silenced victims and pay tribute to the tragedy of so many families.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were, for most Brits and Americans, part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists, both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists, have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream
Florida is the land of pink flamingos, melanoma, the blue rinse, gang warfare
and the electric chair. This work shatters the stereotypical image that is
associated with Florida. It is a story of the places that chance can take you
to and a portrait of the many sides of Florida, where dreams can be made as
quickly as they are broken.
On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to
earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had
risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And
so, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and built
a plane and tried to fly.
The Phoenix Keeper is an irresistible queer romantasy standalone set in a
magical zoo of mythical creatures by ecology professor and ornithologist S. A.
MacLean.
"A universal story about the power of place to shape families: in the spirit of his father's ... classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
An heartbreakingly honest and deeply moving memoir in the words of the son,
his wife and his mother of her battle with cancer, from one of the UK's best
loved travel writers.
An unsettling, timely, and darkly comic exposé of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from highly acclaimed travel writer Rory MacLean.In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits and Americans – part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev.As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists – both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists – have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.
