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Rory MacLean
Canadian Historian
Born: Nov 5, 1954
About Berlin Good Home Me Travel
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My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace. Rory MacLean
Wild Earth Embrace Favourite Silver River Opens Arms Forest Where Curve Places Traveller
I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys. Rory MacLean
Home Breakfast Corn Spell Our Hung Evocative High City Table London Above Alley Roads Over Lee Up Canada Wall Grew Capital Map Illustrator Medieval Kerry
London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous. Rory MacLean
Me Creative Fickle Anarchist Ways Complex Thousand City London Faces Both Tender Bleak Callous Fresh Always Surprised Ambitious Itself Familiar Contrary Moved Reinventing
Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination. Rory MacLean
Good Travel Destination Vision Own Worlds Our Books Distant Strongest Open New Like Becomes His Subject Itself Author Door Works Her
When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self. Rory MacLean
Home Our Constant Only Self Companion Away
Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria. Rory MacLean
Family Racism Humour Sexism Triumphs Divided Prose True Disarming Lean Dialogue Bush Meat Nigeria
I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts. Rory MacLean
Value Cold See Facts Reporting
To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears. Rory MacLean
Christmas Me People Speak Three Own White Design Gaudy Birth Eat Dress Dress-Up Bears Remains Colours Least Up Trains Want Ice Created Languages Who Painted Porsche Incomprehensible
One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw. Rory MacLean
Remarkable Attended Most Warsaw Ever

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