Geography of Heaven: Travels to the Hereafter by Rory MacLean — a profound and moving journey into the places where this world meets the next.
Five years ago, acclaimed travel writer Rory MacLean set out on a path with no idea where it would lead. When his wife Katrin died, he could not imagine living without her. An atheist and a sceptic, he decided to go looking for her — by tracing humanity’s oldest ideas about the afterlife and seeking out the places where the veil between worlds is said to be thin.
His search took him across continents and centuries: a night alone on Jacob’s Rock, where the biblical patriarch saw a ladder to heaven; fire-walking rituals in Kerala; a Lakota sundance on the Great Plains; the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; and unexpected encounters in Delhi and beyond. Along the way, doors opened, strangers appeared with uncanny timing, and in five inexplicable moments he felt his wife’s presence beside him.
Geography of Heaven is the story of that extraordinary quest — part travel narrative, part love story, part meditation on grief, hope, and the enduring power of connection. Written with MacLean’s characteristic elegance and openness, it is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what lies beyond, and for anyone who has loved and lost.
A magnificent, heartfelt testament to an enduring love.
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