Rory MacLean Quotes


Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'


Citations

MacLean, Rory. "David Bowie in Berlin: 'He was a ghost looking for a new life'." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 13 Jan. 2016.

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  • Born: November 5, 1954
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Profession: Historian

Rory MacLean FRSL is a British-Canadian historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom. 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."