Is a River Alive?

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada-imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers-and always has.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Macfarlane
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2025
• EAN: 9780393242133
• ISBN: 978-0-393-24213-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, Topics in philosophy, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, PHILOSOPHY / Nature