The Draw of the Sea av Wyl Menmuir

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<B>WINNER OF THE HOLYER AN GO AWARD 2023<BR/><BR/> Wyl Menmuir’s <I>The Draw of the </I>Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the sea and the people whose livelihoods revolve around it, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination.</B><BR/><BR/> Since the earliest stages of human development, <B>the sea has fascinated and entranced us</B>. It feeds us, <B>sustaining communities</B> and providing livelihood, but it also holds<B> immense destructive power</B> that threatens to destroy all we have created.<BR/> <BR/> It connects us to faraway places, offering the <B>promise of new lands </B><B>and voyages of discovery, but also</B><B> shapes our borders</B><B>, carving divisions between landmasses and </B><B>eroding the very ground beneath our feet.</B><BR/><BR/> In this <B>lyrical meditation</B> on what it is that draws us to the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the stories of the <B>people whose liv