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PRE ORDER A SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION OF ROBERT'S NEW BOOK HERE!
PUBLISHED MAY 1ST 2025
This special edition is signed and stamped by the author, with exclusive endpapers designed by Daniel Coe, a ribbon marker, and exclusive content – an extra page at the end of the book containing 'A Riversong', a poem written by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Nick Hayes. The book's cover is illustrated by Stanley Donwood.
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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