Where the veil is thin
Rory MacLean
ALAMY, MARTINA BOCCHIO
His finest writing is reserved for both the sacred rites of the many Indigenous people he encounters and the centuries of suffering that European settlement has visited upon them.
IN 2013, Katrin, wife of travel writer Rory MacLean, died of cancer. They had been together for 32 years – she was his “fixed point” he says in Geography of Heaven, his first book since she died. After months of mourning, “howling like a wolf in anguish”, he decided to embark on a quest. Perhaps he could find her again, if he could travel to “sacred spots where the veil between the two realms [the living and the dead] was thought to be thin”.
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