SIGNED INDIE EXCLUSIVE Is a River Alive? - PRE-ORDER 1/5/25

Pre-order your signed indie exclusive copy of Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane for £25.00. This edition has indie exclusive endpapers & ribbon marker, is signed and comes with an exclusive pin badge (see picture 2). 

Publication date: 1 May 2025

**Offer available until midnight on 30 April 2025**

NOTE: Pre-Orders will only be posted/available to collect following the publication date above

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From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.

The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining. Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.

At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has.

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 by Robert Macfarlane (Author)
Format:Hardback 384 pages 
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
ISBN: 9780241624814
Published: 1 May 2025