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Is a River Alive?

byRobert Macfarlane

★ Banff Mountain Book Competition

Robert Macfarlane asks what changes when rivers are understood as living beings rather than resources. Journeys through Ecuador, India and Canada bring him into contact with people defending threatened waterways. The book connects these encounters with a stream near his home and with movements seeking legal recognition for the living world.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 2025-05-20
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780393242133

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Nature: Ecosystems & Habitats: Rivers Nature: Environmental Conservation & Protection Travel: Essays & Travelogues

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry Big Picture Science Blue Humanities Emergence Magazine Podcast First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing How I Write How To Academy Podcast Mongabay Newscast My Life In Books with Red Szell On the Rights of Nature Poured Over The Book Club The River Radius Podcast Think Out Loud Wonder Cabinet

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3. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing — First Draft - Robert MacfarlaneChecked

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5. How To Academy Podcast — Nature Writer and Cambridge Professor Robert Macfarlane - Is a River Alive?Checked

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6. My Life In Books with Red Szell — Robert MacfarlaneChecked

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7. Wonder Cabinet — Robert Macfarlane: The Soul of Rivers and the Rights of NatureChecked

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8. Mongabay Newscast — Are Rivers Alive? Author Robert Macfarlane argues they are.Checked

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12. On the Rights of Nature — 11. Is a River Alive? with Robert MacfarlaneChecked

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13. Think Out Loud — British nature writer Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks, Is a river alive?Checked

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14. Poured Over — Robert Macfarlane on IS A RIVER ALIVE?Checked

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15. How I Write — Elif Shafak & Robert Macfarlane: Two Novelists Have an Epic ConversationChecked

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