Book Review: "Is A River Alive?" - 3 Quarks Daily

Book Review: "Is A River Alive?" - 3 Quarks Daily

Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: Nature writer Robert Macfarlane will need little introduction, having authored a string of successful books on people, landscape, and language. I was impressed by his 2019 book Underland, so when Is a River Alive? was announced, I decided to spoil myself and purchase the signed Indie Exclusive edition. Billed as his most political book to date, Is a River Alive? is a hydrological odyssey into three rive…

Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks ‘Should nature have legal rights?’

It strikes me that not all that many readers of Spear’s – full-throated supporters as I dare say you all will be of what students like to call ‘late capitalism’ – are temperamentally in sympathy with environmentalists. That fine writer Robert Macfarlane – whose shtick is to forge deep into forests, up mountains, down ancient pathways and such accompanied by his fine literary sensibility and rapturous feeling for the transcendent unities of the n…