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The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea

English

By (author): Jon Gower

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water

Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun. Roddy Doyle

Remarkable. Lively Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular. Times Literary Supplement

The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, travelogue and politics, Welshman Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints; invasion forces, royals and rebels; writers, musicians and fishermen.

The divided but interconnected waters of the Irish Sea from the narrow North Channel through St Georges Channel to where the Celtic sea opens out into the wide Atlantic have a turbulent history to match the violence of its storms. Jon Gower is a sympathetic and interested pilot, taking the reader to the great shipyards of Belfast and through the mass exodus of the starving during the Irish Famine in coffin boats bound for America. He follows the migrations of working men and women looking for work in England and tells the tales of more casual travellers: sometimes seasick, often homesick too.

The Irish Sea is also a place with an abundant natural history. The rarest sea bird in Europe visits its coasts in summer while the rarest goose wings in during winter.

The Turning Tide navigates waters teeming with life, filled with seals and salt-tanged stories and surveyed by seabirds. Lyrically written and fizzing with curiosity, this is a remarkable and far-reaching book.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Feb 2023
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008532635

About Jon Gower

Jon Gower grew up in Llanelli Wales and studied English at Cambridge University. A former BBC Wales Arts and Media correspondent he has been making documentary programmes for television and radio for several decades. He has over thirty books to his name in both Welsh and English. His last trade book in English The Story of Wales was published to accompany a landmark BBC series broadcast. He lives in Cardiff Wales with his wife Sarah and two daughters Elena and Onwy.

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