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Is a river alive?

Macfarlane, Robert 1976- (author.).

Summary: "Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada -- imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house, a stream who flows through his own years and days. Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers -- and always has."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393242133
  • ISBN: 0393242137
  • Physical Description: print
    ix, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-345) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: The Springs -- Introduction: Anima -- Part I The River of the Cedars (Eucador). The Springs (Winter) -- Part II Ghosts, Monsters and Angels (India). The Springs (Spring) -- Part III The Living River (Nitassinan/Canada). Epilogue: The Springs (Autumn).

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Subject:
Rivers
Natural history
Stream ecology
Human ecology
Nature Effect of human beings on
Nature observation
Reserva Biológica Los Cedros (Ecuador)
Chennai (India)
Labrador Peninsula (Québec and N.L.)
Genre:
Travel writing.
Informational works.

Available copies

  • 38 of 50 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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