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MACFARLANE ROBERT IS A RIVER ALIVE?

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.

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