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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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Finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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