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Is a River Alive?

Is a River Alive?


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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.



About the Author :
Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling books include Is a River Alive? and Underland. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has won many prizes around the world. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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"Named one of "the best books of the year so far" (2025)" "Is a River Alive? is a rich and visionary work of immense beauty. Robert Macfarlane is a memory keeper. What is broken in our societies, he mends with words. Rarely does a book hold such power, passion, and poetry in its exploration of nature. Read this to feel inspired, moved and, ultimately, alive with the world." "“Macfarlane’s prose offers a glorious invitation to return to one’s child-mind and its inherent wonder.... Is a River Alive? illustrates what resistance to extraction can look like on the ground, and also what might be awakened in us when we begin to live with rivers, recognizing them as co-creators of our past, our present, and—more and more—our future.”" "Is a River Alive? is a wide-ranging feat of reporting that wends between the waters of three disparate places... Macfarlane’s prose is vivid, sometimes even flowery...  It is not just informative but frequently beautiful, full of luscious lines." "The scholarship underpinning these adventures is impressive... this is a profoundly beautiful and moving work." "Haunting...By the end of this wild travelogue of a book, [Macfarlane] convinces us: a river is very much alive, a vital co-creator of our being in ways we desperately need to articulate in new linguistic forms." "Macfarlane’s book is timely... His prose aspires to poetry throughout... Macfarlane’s impassioned book shows the way, ending on a riskily lyrical high with his arrival as a waterbody complete: ‘I am rivered.'" "Dr Macfarlane deploys his long-recognised formidable talent with consummate skill and also, crucially, sincerity. His mastery of technique never feels merely technical; it feels head-in-white-water-breathtakingly heartfelt... Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece. " "The author of Underland lends his expertise to raise awareness about a part of nature that is often taken for granted. Readers see that while rivers can be easily wounded, they can also quickly heal—if given the right care." "When he observes what he sees, his descriptions are original, sinuous and often startling; when he’s in thrall to a reverie, his descriptions get windy and sentimental....Let the stream of consciousness wash over you."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780393242133
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton & Co
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0393242137
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 684 gr


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