Is a River Alive?
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Product details:
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Publication 1 May 2025
- ISBN 9780241624814
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 242x164x35 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English 617
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Long description:
SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book ? which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.
At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings ? who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining.
Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way.
And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river ? the Mutehekau or Magpie ? is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
At once Macfarlane?s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers ? and always has.
2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO SPECTATOR, I PAPER, ECONOMIST, ESQUIRE, TIME
