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Trevor Norton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow; New edition edition (1 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099416166
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099416166
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 432,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Trevor Norton's Reflections on a Summer Sea is partly his scientific autobiography and partly the scientific biography of a remarkable tidal inlet from the Atlantic. Professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool, Norton cut his teeth as a young research student in the mid-1960s at Lough Ine, a small sea loch in county Cork, Ireland. Since 1923 Lough Ine has been probed and prodded by countless generations of students from Ireland and Britain who have counted, identified and wondered about the extraordinary diversity of life that inhabits it. Their published results have made Lough Ine famous amongst ecologists and marine biologists the world over.

Reflections on a Summer Sea provides a wonderful evocation of this little corner of Ireland, the scientists who have worked there and how it has changed over the decades. Norton writes with ease and charm and a particular familiarity engendered over many years. Ireland and the Irish tend to lure the English into an overly romantic and nostalgic paternalism which Norton generally manages to keep at bay. He is aware of "the harsh unyielding land that wears a man down and into an early grave in soil too shallow to dig". But his constant obsevations of quaint advertisements "Cahirsiveen Gun Club--Shooting Strictly Prohibited" still add a pervasive note of whimsy.

Norton remarks on the efforts of Jack Kitching, one of the founders of the research station, to maintain the spirit of the 1950s, "when joints were for carving not smoking , when students were 'good chaps' and 'grand girls'", who were "content to Swallows-and-Amazons away their summers". Here he hits just the right note and his true story could well be about what Arthur Ransome's young heroes got up to when they went to university. A good read for all natural scientists of a certain age and fans of Arthur Ransome. --Douglas Palmer --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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I'm writing to compliment the author on this wonderful book. Not only has he an exceptionally rare ability to recapture those ecstatically funny moments in life, but also a profound, and quite moving, ability to capture what it is to be human. My wife is scratching my back to read it after me. The Irish eccentricities evoke very funny memories of my own childhood in Clonmel, which is actually the county town of Tipperary, and I have cousins who live in the city of Cork. It's a world that is now gone in terms of bricks and mortar and people, but Trevor Norton has immortalised it in his crystalline prose. This is the kind of book you don't ever want to end and after you have read it you want to go straight back and start reading it all over again.
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Truly Fantastic! 19 Aug 2002
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This is a truly fantastic and enjoyable read! Although not my usual type of book, I picked it up for something different - and WOW! Trevor Norton has the ability to explain Marine Biology and Ecology to the wider audience, he never gets to technical but describes all the organisms in such a way that you can see them clearly in your minds eye and even begin to rejoice as the experiments on each organism succeed!

The characters simply leap from the pages and you find yourself starting to belong to this little group of Ecologists and Marine Biologists who meet up each summer in the laboratories of Lough Ine, in the Cork countryside. Even those not interested in Ecology and Marine Biology should read this inspiring novel, which has you laughing out loud at the adventures of some of the students on their annual field trip., and it's ALL TRUE!
Truly brilliant!!!

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I had the pleasure and privilege to be on a Field Trip at Lough Ine in the 70s, and can vouch for the veracity of many of Trevor's tales. But it's how he tells them! You can hear the oars clonking between the thole pins and almost taste the Guiness omelettes. Trevor deals sensitively with the evolving and decaying relationships between the characters, while including enough marine biology and Irish colour to captivate readers with an array of interests. I did wonder if it would have the same appeal to someone who hadn't been there, but read it as a grown-up Famous Five book, and it only lacks the dog!
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