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MACFARLANE ROBERT IS A RIVER ALIVE?

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.

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