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A Single Swallow
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales | Horatio Clare
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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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#BonBonCat contemplates life #CatsofLitsy

rretzler 😻 5y
rretzler Looks like BonBonCat might be contemplating why he can‘t have the swallow on the cover 😹 5y
Crazeedi Bon Bon is beautiful 5y
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#TrickyCat has decided I have read enough for now. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #CatsofLitsy

cherinium They're so insistent when they've decided you haven't paid them enough attention! 5y
Crazeedi They watch the clock!😻😻 5y
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It‘s good to be home! Relaxing with coffee and a book by one of my new favorite writers I discovered on this trip, nature and travel writer Horatio Clare. (And I‘m surrounded by cats — I missed our 6 kitties!)

Tamra This sounds really interesting! 5y
julesG There's no place like home! 5y
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