
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...

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...
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From the bestselling 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. Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl...
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C mo las aguas moldean el mundo, influyen en nuestro pensamiento y forjan nuestro futuro. Una obra maestra . --The Economist Transforma nuestra manera de percibir el mundo...
Release Date: Jul 21, 2026

"A beautiful, wild exploration of an ancient idea: that rivers are living participants in a living world." --MERLIN SHELDRAKE, bestselling author of Entangled Life
From the bestselling author of Underland and "the great nature writer . . . of this...


From the bestselling 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. Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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....