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Rory MacLean
Canadian historian and travel writer
Rory MacLeanFRSL (born 5 November 1954)[1] is a British-Canadian[2] historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom.
Until , he owned and operated the Mobil franchise and mechanic shop in town.
His best known works are Stalin’s Nose, a travelogue through eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Magic Bus, a history of the Asia Overland hippie trail; and Berlin: Imagine a City, a portrait of that city over 500 years.
In 2019 John le Carré wrote that MacLean "must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time."[3]
Biography
MacLean was born in Vancouver, the son of Canadian newspaper publisher Andrew Dyas MacLean and Joan Howe, former secretary to author Ian Fleming at The Times and part-inspiration for the fictional James Bond character Miss Moneypenny.[4] He grew up in Toronto, graduating from Upper Canada College and Toronto Metropolitan University.
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