Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive?

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Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780241998212
• ISBN-10: 0241998212
• Artikelnr.: 74438887

Autorenporträt

Robert Macfarlane

Rezensionen

Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece The Economist