Is a River Alive?
£25.00
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At once Robert Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, ‘Is a River Alive?’ Promises to open hearts, spark debates, and lead readers to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has. Flowing first from northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining, to the wounded rivers, creeks, and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way, it leads finally to north-eastern Quebec, as a spectacular wild river is defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
Dimensions
H: 24cm (9.5in) x W: 16cm (6.5in) x D: 3.5cm (1.5in)
Features
notes
At once Robert Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, ‘Is a River Alive?’ Promises to open hearts, spark debates, and lead readers to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has. Flowing first from northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining, to the wounded rivers, creeks, and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way, it leads finally to north-eastern Quebec, as a spectacular wild river is defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
Insights
Internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place, Robert Macfarlane’s bestselling books include ‘Underland’, ‘Landmarks’, ‘The Old Ways’, ‘The Wild Places’, and ‘Mountains of the Mind’, as well as a book length prose poem, ‘Ness’. Translated into more than thirty languages, his work has won prizes around the world and has been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio, and dance. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart, and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums.
Details & Care
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
- Hard cover
- Black & white photography
- Number of pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780241624814
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