Is a River Alive?
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Product details:
- Publisher Hamish Hamilton
- Date of Publication 1 May 2025
- ISBN 9780241624814
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 240x160x33 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
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
