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Article: A flight of fancy - and a crash landing.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2009
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Byline: Harry Ritchie
A Single Swallow
by Horatio Clare
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Journeys based on daft gimmicks have become a tiresome tradition in travel writing: crossing the Andes by unicycle, traipsing round Ireland with a fridge, that sort of thing. Horatio Clare's book, thankfully, is nothing like that. Quite the opposite, in fact. The inspiration behind it was born of a lifelong love of the swallows that nest around his mother's farm in Wales.
Horatio Clare's ambition was to go on the trip the swallows make twice a year between northern Europe and ...