EAN: 9780241998212

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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