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The Turning Tide – A Biography of the Irish Sea

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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.

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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.
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.

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English