Is a river alive? / Robert Macfarlane.

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-, author

London : Hamish Hamilton, 2025.

ix, 374 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

At the heart of 'Is a River Alive?' is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young 'rights of nature' movement has lit up activists, artists, law-makers and politicians across six continents - and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.

9780241624814 (hbk)

577.6401
577.64

QH541.5.S7

577.64
577.6401

English

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