{"product_id":"is-a-river-alive","title":"Is a River Alive?","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Jury Citation for the Banff Mountain Books Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize\u003cbr\u003eAn ABA Indie Next Pick\u003cbr\u003eAn Economist, New Yorker, and Guardian Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Time Must-Read Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of NPR’s “Books We Love” of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Washington Post Notable Work of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As beautiful as the rivers and the hope he’s describing.” ―Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed 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 exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, a stream who flows through his own years and days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePowered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers―and always has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink Cap Books LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47236723933315,"sku":"9781324130734","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1525\/1587\/files\/9781324130734.jpg?v=1780411275","url":"https:\/\/inkcapbooks.com\/products\/is-a-river-alive","provider":"Ink Cap Books LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}