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A Single Swallow - Following an Epic Journey From South Africa to South Wales

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Horatio Clare is the bestselling author of numerous books including the memoirs Running for the Hills and Truant and the travel books A Single Swallow , Down to the Sea in Ships, Orison for a Curlew, Icebreaker and The Light in the Dark. His books for children include Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot and Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds. Horatio's essays and reviews appear on BBC radio and in the Financial Times , the Observer and the Spectator , among other publications. He lives with his family in West Yorkshire. Klappentext Horatio Clare is the author of Running for the Hills (nominated for the Guardian First Book Award 2006 and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), Sicily through Writers' Eyes and Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope . The journey for this book was partly financed by a Somerset Maugham Award. He has made radio features in Morocco, written about Ethiopia for the New Statesman , and been commissioned by CondeNast Traveller to write on Sicily and Namibia. He has worked as a producer for BBC Radio's 'Night Waves' and 'The Verb'. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

Authors Horatio Clare, Clare Horatio
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 04.03.2010
 
EAN 9780099526315
ISBN 978-0-09-952631-5
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
Subjects Guides > Nature

NATURE / Animals / Birds, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, swallow; swallows; nature writing; the sunday times books

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