{"product_id":"is-a-river-alive-1","title":"Is a River Alive?","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Robert MacFarlane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW.W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6\/9\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781324130734\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailed in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacfarlane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, \u003cem\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/em\u003e will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers--and always has.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is itself a river of poetic prose, an invitation to get onboard and float through the rapids of encounters with places and people, the eddies of ideas, to navigate the resurgence of Indigenous worldviews through three extraordinary journeys recounted with a vividness that lifts readers out of themselves and into these waterscapes. Read it for pleasure, read it for illumination, read it for confirmation that our world is changing in wonderful as well as terrible ways.\" -- Rebecca Solnit, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/orwells-roses-pb\" title=\"Orwell's Roses\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a beautiful, wild exploration of an ancient idea: that rivers are living participants in a living world. Robert Macfarlane's astonishing telling of the lives of three rivers reveals how these vital flow forms have the power not only to shape and reshape the planet, but also our thoughts, feelings, and worldviews. \u003cem\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking work that speaks powerfully to this moment of crisis and transformation.\" -- Merlin Sheldrake, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/entangled-life-how-fungi-make-our-worlds-change-our-minds-shape-our-futures\" title=\"Entangled Life\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEntangled Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Macfarlane\u003c\/strong\u003e's best-selling books include \u003cem\u003eUnderland\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52437953347867,"sku":"Is a River Alive","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/9781324130734.jpg?v=1782934896","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/is-a-river-alive-1","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}