Robert Macfarlane

Praise for Is a River Alive?

Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece

The Economist

One of the big publishing events (if not the biggest) of 2025 – a new book by Robert Macfarlane . . . Personal as well as political, it’s almost as certain to shift readerly perspectives as it is to be a bestseller

Observer, ‘Nonfiction to look forward to in 2025’

A rich and visionary work of immense beauty. Macfarlane is a memory keeper. What is broken in our societies, he mends with words. Rarely does a book hold such power, passion, and poetry in its exploration of nature. ...

Elif Shafak

Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece

The Economist

One of the big publishing events (if not the biggest) of 2025 – a new book by Robert Macfarlane . . . Personal as well as political, it’s almost as certain to shift readerly perspectives as it is to be a bestseller

Observer, ‘Nonfiction to look forward to in 2025’

A rich and visionary work of immense beauty. Macfarlane is a memory keeper. What is broken in our societies, he mends with words. Rarely does a book hold such power, passion, and poetry in its exploration of nature. ...

Elif Shafak

Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece

The Economist

One of the big publishing events (if not the biggest) of 2025 – a new book by Robert Macfarlane . . . Personal as well as political, it’s almost as certain to shift readerly perspectives as it is to be a bestseller

Observer, ‘Nonfiction to look forward to in 2025’

A rich and visionary work of immense beauty. Macfarlane is a memory keeper. What is broken in our societies, he mends with words. Rarely does a book hold such power, passion, and poetry in its exploration of nature. ...

Elif Shafak

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