Jon Gower
TURNING TIDE PB : A Biography of the Irish Sea Paperback Book
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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 worldhistorical importance. Combining social and cultural history, naturewriting, 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 salttanged stories and surveyed by seabirds. Lyrically written and fizzing with curiosity, this is a remarkable and farreaching book.
Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct; Classification: HBTB; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 20
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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 worldhistorical importance. Combining social and cultural history, naturewriting, 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 salttanged stories and surveyed by seabirds. Lyrically written and fizzing with curiosity, this is a remarkable and farreaching book.
Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct; Classification: HBTB; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 20
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Jon Gower
TURNING TIDE PB : A Biography of the Irish Sea Paperback Book
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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