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Nonfiction, Nature, Science, Environment
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 exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.
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An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure
“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental.
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“Is this Robert Macfarlane's best work?”
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“Is Is a River Alive? too earnest?”
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