{"product_id":"is-a-river-alive-2","title":"Is a River Alive?","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful, wild exploration of an ancient idea: that rivers are living participants in a living world.\" --MERLIN SHELDRAKE, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEntangled Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e and \"the great nature writer . . . of this generation\" (\u003ci\u003eWSJ\u003c\/i\u003e), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers--and life itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas \"a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,\" Robert Macfarlane brings us a profound work of travel writing, reportage and natural history. \u003ci\u003eIs a River Alive? \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMacfarlane 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, who flows through his own years and days. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, \u003ci\u003eIs A River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will open hearts, challenge perspectives and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers--and always has.","brand":"Vintage Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841268101325,"sku":"9781039007970","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_94f83eb7-6ff1-4f7e-91db-5eeeade854bd.jpg?v=1792025802","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/is-a-river-alive-2","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}