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Rory MacLean reviews

Rory MacLean's monthly travel book review
  • Reading a book

    The best travel books of 2009

  • Wooden puppets in Kerala India

    Rory MacLean's travel book of the year: William Dalrymple's Nine Lives

  • Green tea stall in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market

    Rory MacLean reviews Sushi and Beyond

    Rory MacLean reviews Michael Booth's mouth-watering revelations on the secrets of Japanese cuisine

  • Sail boats in Greece

    All at sea in the Greek islands

    Chris Stewart's madcap nautical adventures are 'a charming and lyrical read, awash with the joy of discovery', says Rory MacLean

  • Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

    Burma through the artist's eye

    Burma Chronicles is the most enlightening and insightful book about life under the country's brutal dictatorship in years, says Rory MacLean

  • Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico by Hugh Thomson

    A Mexican road trip down memory lane

    Rory MacLean: 'I doubt I'll read a more delightful, celebratory and honest travel book this year'

  • Castellón in Spain

    One-way trip to a Spanish paradise

    Rory Maclean reviews Jason Webster's aspirational story of setting up life as a truffle farmer on a sacred mountain in Sierra

  • Reading a book

    Travel books of the year

    Rory MacLean asks leading travel authors to name their favourite travel books of the year. The results make perfect gifts for a stay-at-home Christmas read

  • Nha Trang, Vietnam

    How to travel in a discovered world

    Rory MacLean reviews Rolf Pott's hilarious tales of the 'disappointment and wander-loss' of post-modern travel

  • Cooking curry in a balti kitchen, Birmingham

    On the British balti trail

    Rory MacLean reviews Ziauddin Sardar's entertaining journey to unravel the diverse threads of the British Asian experience

  • I Wouldn’t Start From Here: the 21st Century and Where it all Went Wrong by Andrew Mueller

    A whole world of trouble

    Rory MacLean on Andrew Mueller's 'irreverent and jovial jaunt of a guidebook around our violent and baffling modern world'

  • The Man in Seat 61

    All aboard the worldwide express

    Rory Maclean takes his place next to the train traveller known as the Man in Seat 61 and revels in the journey

  • Camel train through desert, Morocco, North Africa

    Morocco: true stories

    Tahir Shah's latest book is a quest for epic tales about his adopted home - from the lips of everyone from Marrakchi raconteurs to superstitious bee keepers

  • Statue in Warsaw old town

    Magnetic Poles

    Rory MacLean on an 'essential' travel book that sets out to make sense of Poland's overwhelming history

  • Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

    Lest we forget

    Rory MacLean on a European journey from war to peace along the battle trail of the second world war

  • Mongolian woman in traditional dress

    Print as you go

    Travel writing has found a new platform in the form of self-publishing websites. Rory MacLean finds out how the new breed of wanna-be Chatwins shape up

  • La Petite Anglaise in Paris

    'A digital-age fairytale in Paris'

    Rory MacLean reviews Petite Anglaise, a 'light, frank and fun' memoir of a Francophile in Paris following the runaway success of her original blog

  • Istanbul, Turkey

    Seaport stories

    Nicholas Woodsworth's trilogy charts the historic and cultural ties connecting the Mediterranean's great cities: Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul. The result is something to be cherished, says Rory MacLean

  • Reading on holiday

    Have novel will travel

    For those of us who can only dream of escaping abroad Rory MacLean recommends the best fiction books for transporting readers to a foreign land

  • Democratic Republic of Congo

    Congo crossing

    Rory MacLean on Tim Butcher's terrifying journey following in the footsteps of HM Stanley

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