rotating package, change rotation of a single sideways table

Question

The question about how to force rotation of sidewaystable or sidewaysfigure has been asked several times and the answer is always "use the package rotating with option figuresleft or figuresright or clockwise, etc.".

This is good practice since it forces the same behavior all along the book.

But I need an exception. I have a sideways table that is two pages long, so I'm splitting it between an even page and an odd page. But of course for this to happen I need the two tables to be oriented in the same way. But I don't want to change the global behavior of sideways environments either, this should be exceptional.

How I can change the rotation of a single sidewaystable environment without using a package option?

(I tried to use counterclockwise as an environment option but it didn't worked…)

Following advice by Ulrike, here is a minimal example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}

\setcounter{page}{48}

\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{This is the first part of the table on the even page}

\bigskip

Stuff that needs to be written from bottom to top.

\end{sidewaystable}

\newpage

\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{This is the second part of the table on the odd page}

\bigskip

Stuff that also needs to be written from bottom to top.

\end{sidewaystable}

\end{document}

The goal is to have the even-page sideways table (page 48) displaying text from bottom to top, just like the odd-page sideways table, without changing the global package option.

Answer 1

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}

\setcounter{page}{48}
\makeatletter \@rot@twosidefalse \makeatother

\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{This is the first part of the table on the even page}

\bigskip

Stuff that needs to be written from bottom to top.

\end{sidewaystable}

\newpage
\begin{sidewaystable}
\caption{This is the second part of the table on the odd page}

\bigskip

Stuff that also needs to be written from bottom to top.

\end{sidewaystable}

\makeatletter \@rot@twosidetrue \makeatother

\end{document}

Answer 2

One possibility is to use landscape pages encapsulated in \afterpage{...} instead of two consecutive sidewaystable:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setcounter{page}{46}
\begin{document}

\lipsum
\afterpage{%
\begin{landscape}
    \begin{table}
\caption{This is the first part of the table on the even page}

\bigskip
\lipsum[1-2]

\end{table}

\clearpage

\begin{table}
\caption{This is the second part of the table on the odd page}

\bigskip
\lipsum[3-4]

\end{table}
\end{landscape}
}
\lipsum
\end{document}