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Is a River Alive?
Authored by Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by Robert Macfarlane

0:00 Intro
0:03 Is a River Alive?
0:56 Prologue: The Springs
10:56 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025


From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective–shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title.

At the heart of Is a River Alive? 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. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind–expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept.

Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re–animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young "rights of nature" movement has lit up activists, artists, law–makers and politicians across six continents—and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.

The book flows like water, from the mountains to the sea, over three major journeys. The first is to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud–forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by Canadian gold–mining. The second is to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is underway. The third is to northeastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river—the Mutehekau or Magpie—is being defended from death by damming in a river–rights campaign led by an extraordinary Innu poet and leader called Rita Mestokosho.

Is A River Alive? is at once a literary work of art, a rallying cry and a catalyst for change. It is a book that will open hearts, spark debates and challenge perspectives. A clarion call to re–centre rivers in our stories, law and politics, it invites us to radically re–imagine not only rivers but life itself. At the heart of this vital, beautiful book is the recognition that our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROBERT MACFARLANE is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as the book–length prose–poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won many prizes around the world and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co–created the internationally bestselling books of nature–poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Julie Fowlis and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood and The Moon Also Rises. In 2017, the American Academy…

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781039007987
Duration: 10 hr, 41 min
Genres: Law / Environmental, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Science / Activism & Social Justice