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An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of waterFascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy DoyleRemarkable. Lively Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times Literary SupplementThe 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 George's 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

The Turning Tide

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An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of waterFascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy DoyleRemarkable. Lively Gower writes beautifully... Read more

    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 8/29/2024
    ISBN13: 9780008532666, 978-0008532666
    ISBN10: 0008532664

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of waterFascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy DoyleRemarkable. Lively Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times Literary SupplementThe 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 George's 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

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