The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower Groundswell Speaker 2024An 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;

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Harper CollinsISBN: 9781405291767Extent: 480 pages

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