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The Turning Tide - A Biography of the Irish Sea
The Turning Tide - A Biography of the Irish Sea
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Emyn mawl i lwybr morol o bwysigrwydd hanesyddol drwy'r byd yw The Turning Tide . Mae Jon Gower, wrth gyfuno hanes diwylliannol a chymdeithasol, llenyddiaeth natur a thaith ynghyd â gwleidyddiaeth, yn cyflwyno hanes y môr rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon, môr a gariodd Lychlynwyr a seintiau, lluoedd goresgynnol a herwyr arfog, llenorion, cerddorion a physgotwyr.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, travelogue and politics, Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints, invasion forces and furtive gun-runners, writers, musicians and fishermen.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780008532635
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780008532635
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- The Turning Tide - A Biography of the Irish Sea
- Awdur / Author
- Gower, Jon
- Current Price ex VAT
- £20.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £20.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Temporarily out of stock
- Availability Status (CY)
- Allan o stoc dros dro
- Dyddiad argaeledd / Availability Date
- 2023-02-16
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2023-02-16
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 328 pages
- Size
- 159 × 240 mm; depth 24 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
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 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. Jon Gower navigates waters teeming with life, filled with seals and salt-tanged stories and surveyed by seabirds. At a time when Irish affairs feel like they are building towards an historic crescendo, he tells the story of the people who have crossed these waters, and who live on their shores. Lyrically written and deeply considered, this is a remarkable and far-reaching book.
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