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Robert Macfarlane
Is A River Alive?
Is A River Alive?
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AuthorRobert MacfarlaneGenreNature & EnvironmentFormatPaperbackPAGES320 pp
A river is not a resource. It is a living being. In this urgent, perspective-shifting book, Robert Macfarlane sets out to answer the question of its title — and his answer is a resounding yes. Travelling to three frontlines of the river-rights movement, he takes us first into the cloud forests of northern Ecuador, where ancient waterways are threatened by industrial goldmining; then to the rivers and lagoons of southern India, where communities are fighting to have their waterbodies recognised as legal persons before the law; and finally to the wild Mutehekau river in north-eastern Quebec, where a campaign to save it from damming is redefining what it means to defend the natural world.
At once Macfarlane's most personal and most political book, Is a River Alive? moves between deep ecological history and the present crisis, between science, law, and wonder. It asks what we lose when we treat rivers as infrastructure — and what we might gain if we learned to see them as kin.
At once Macfarlane's most personal and most political book, Is a River Alive? moves between deep ecological history and the present crisis, between science, law, and wonder. It asks what we lose when we treat rivers as infrastructure — and what we might gain if we learned to see them as kin.
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