A Single Swallow [Idioma Inglés]: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales - Softcover

Clare, Horatio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009952631X ISBN 13: 9780099526315

Verlag: Random House Uk, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog., By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.

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Críticas

"Clare's extraordinary and mesmerising odyssey following the migration of the swallow from South Africa to South Wales" (Annabel Goldie Herald)

"A gifted and lyrical travel writer" (Financial Times)

"The author deploys some fine lyrical writing and a gift for inventive, unexpected metaphor ... Clare's other great asset is his brave, modern, multicultural and open-hearted approach to travel itself" (Mark Cocker Guardian)

"Fizzingly entertaining. His own prose has something of their flight: daring, sharp-edged, fast-moving, graceful, full of surprises. This is a great adventure, thrillingly realised" (Tom Fort Literary Review)

"Remarkably insightful and entertaining, with Clare proving himself to be the most enthusiastic, open-minded, intelligent and incorrigibly romantic of travellers" (Mail on Sunday)

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'Fizzingly entertaining. His prose has something of the swallow's flight: daring, sharp-edged, fast-moving, graceful, full of surprises' Literary Review

'Enthralling, passionate, hair-raising, quirky, hilarious, informative, occasionally mad and utterly, utterly brilliant' Daily Mail

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.

'A gifted and lyrical travel writer...a sensitive and intelligent observer' Financial Times

'Remarkably insightful and entertaining...Clare is the most enthusiastic, open-minded, intelligent and incorrigibly romantic of travellers' Mail on Sunday

'A hell of a journey' Simon Barnes, The Times

'Brave, modern, multicultural and open-hearted' Mark Cocker, Guardian

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• Verlag: Random House Uk
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 009952631X
• ISBN 13: 9780099526315
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320