 In "Falling for Icarus" (2004), MacLean moved to Crete to hand build—and fly once—a flying machine to come to terms with the death of his mother and to examine the relevance of Greek mythology to modern lives.In his book "Magic Bus" (2006), Maclean followed the many young Western people who in the 1960s and 1970s blazed the 'hippie trail' from Istanbul to India.His seventh book "Missing Lives" (with photographer Nick Danziger) (2010) told the stories of fifteen people who went missing during the Yugoslav wars.