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A Single Swallow: An Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
Category: Science & Natural History
A journey of 6,000 miles across two continents and fourteen countries is nothing to swallows: they do it twice a year. But for a writer and birdwatcher, this is the expedition of a lifetime.By trains, cars, buses, motorbikes, trucks, canoes, planes, one camel and three ships, Horatio Clare followed migr ...Show more
A Single Swallow : Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
Category: Science & Natural History
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, w ...Show more
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
Category: Politics
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
Heavy Light - A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing by Horatio Clare
Category: Biography
A journey through mania, madness and healing- both personal and rigorously researched it'll be a timely contribution to our ongoing national conversation about mental healthHeavy Light is the story of a breakdown, a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital and onwards to ...Show more
Heavy Light - A Journey Through Mania, Madness and Healing by Horatio Clare
Category: Biography Memoir
A 'Book to look out for in 2021' in the ObserverHeavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of ...Show more
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Horatio Clare
Category: Biography | Series: travel series
We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year- how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic cir ...Show more
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Clare Horatio
Category: Biography
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arcti ...Show more
Orison for a Curlew by Beatrice (ILT) Horatio; Forshall Clare
Category: Nature
The slender-billed curlew, Numenius tenuirostris, "the slim beak of the new moon," is one of the world's rarest birds. It once bred in Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through the wetlands and estuaries of Italy, Greece, the Balkans and Central Asia. Today, the slender-billed cur ...Show more
Orison for a CurlewIn Search for a Bird on the Edge of Extinction by Horatio Clare
Category: Nature
The Slender-billed curlew is one of the world's rarest birds. A beautiful, fragile creature, it bred in Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through the wetlands and estuaries of Italy, Greece, the Balkans and central Asia twice a year. Then, for mysterious reasons, the population cr ...Show more
Something of His Art - Walking to Lubeck with J S Bach by Horatio CLARE
Category: Biography
In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lübeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more than 250 miles. This journey and its destination w ...Show more
Something of his Art Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach by Clare, Horatio
Category: Biography
In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more than 250 miles. This journey and its destination w ...Show more