A Single Swallow

Reviews / Votes

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 * Clare has produced an enthusiastic, often elegiac, chronicle of his encounters with the swallows -- Brian Schofield * The Sunday Times * His eye for detail and his elegant pen give flavour of each country he crosses: great veldt and high plateaux, Congo's "green vastness", the "sandy seas" of the Sahel and, finally, the fertile plain of the north African coast * The Economist * The resulting book, travel writing at its very best, is enthralling, passionate, hair-raising, quirky, hilarious, informative, occasionally mad and utterly, utterly brilliant... irresistible stuff. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail * Horatio Clare pays tribute to the extraordinary migratory journeys of the swallow...a book that combines travel with natural history * Metro * It's graphically done, making me feel I was with him all the way * The Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazine *