A Single Swallow

by Horatio Clare

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009952631X
• ISBN13: 9780099526315
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"