A Single Swallow
Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales











- Published: 3 May 2010
- ISBN: 9780099526315
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $29.99
Clare's extraordinary and mesmerising odyssey following the migration of the swallow from South Africa to South Wales
Annabel Goldie, Herald
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
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
Clare has produced an enthusiastic, often elegiac, chronicle of his encounters with the swallows
Brian Schofield, The Sunday Times
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
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
Remarkably insightful and entertaining, with Clare proving himself to be the most enthusiastic, open-minded, intelligent and incorrigibly romantic of travellers
Mail on Sunday
It's graphically done, making me feel I was with him all the way
The Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazine
Clare is engaging and makes a convincing case for the futility of borders
Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph
An exciting book, and often very moving
Susan Hill, The Lady
This is a book of rare lyrical beauty
Brian Maye, Irish Times
His descriptive prose is faultlessly evocative
Daily Mail