Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

A New York Times Bestseller
A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller

A New York Times "New Nonfiction to Read This Spring" Recommendation • A Financial Times "Best Summer Book of 2025" • A Guardian "Nonfiction to Look Forward To in 2025" Pick • A Washington Post "Book to Watch For" in 2025

From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer…of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself.
Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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ISBN 13 9781324130734
ISBN 10 1324130733
Title Is a River Alive?
Author Robert Macfarlane
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Year published 2026-06-09
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.