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Turning the Tides.

            The year is 2064 and an old man looks back on a life of change, of crisis and recovery, and intense development . . . .

  Sited in the beautiful Isle of Anglesey

            While the narrative is set on the beautiful peaceful Isle of Anglesey, which in turn lies next to the rugged mainland mountain countryside of North Wales, Turning the Tides is the story both of one man's achievements and of a county's capacity to create its own individual strengths and stand alone; developing its own scenic and historic romantic past, its seaside beaches, cliff pathways and rich agricultural rolling countryside. –

            But at the same time moving to the forefront of scientific development, keeping its feet on the ground by turning the whole county into a completely organic farming area, bounded on all side by the sea,

Thirty miles long by twenty miles wide.   Hundreds of farms of varying sizes, lakes, marshy areas, the avon (river) Cefni and many smaller rivers and streams; wild life abounding around the coasts and inland waterways; its farmland free for everyone to walk around and enjoy, a paradise for bird-watchers and wild-life (rural, not urban) enthusiasts, a healthy environment for all adults and children to grow up in and develop their individual strengths and interests.

By the end of the book Anglesey is virtually independent from both the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff and the government in England. It has its own Assembly : -

It is able to finance double the number of teachers in its schools and double the number of police in its villages and towns.

It allows no petrol or diesel on its roads.

Has built hydro-electric dams at either end of the Menai Strait and every house has its own wind-powered and sun-powered electric system. All round the island in the under - water tidal races are powerful turbines creating endless electricity from endless tidal power – a free and eternally (until entropy sets in and ends it all for all of us) – an eternally repeating, non-polluting, natural, source of energy; and, as an independent entity, the county sells electricity to the mainland, financing a superb health service for its inhabitants.

The book starts when the narrator and his family face up to the difficulties of farming in the year 1997 in the aftermath of Mad Cow Disease and a severe Foot and Mouth epidemic.

By ‘going organic', producing top quality beef, vegetables and duckling, and rescuing the old derelict family estate gardens, the farm becomes a thriving tourist attraction.

Becoming an engineer the narrator develops an under-water turbine to produce electricity by harnessing the power of the tides.

Giving details of his own personal life as they coincide with the unfolding of events and advances of technology he goes on to develop batteries capable of storing much more electricity than hitherto; with these it is possible to run an electric car, power trains, buses and tractors, all of which need neither petrol nor diesel and so do not pollute the atmosphere and do not use electricity produced from sources that do.

He then encourages and finances the design of small wind-turbines and photovoltaic cells, producing them cheaply enough to have in every garden and on every roof, thus making it possible for every household, and Anglesey as a whole, to produce more electricity than it needs and sell a surplus to the mainland grid.

No nuclear power! Totally organic, no pollution; better schools, better health!

If Anglesey – why not all Wales: all Scotland and England? The whole World?

Order from your local bookshop for £12.99 or buy direct from the author with a cheque for only £10.00 ( post free) (pay 'J.A.Wood'), 6 Stanley Street, Beaumaris, Anglesey. LL 58 8 E T.