{"product_id":"9780241624814","title":"Is a River Alive?","description":"From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.\n \n 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.\n \n The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining.\n \n 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.\n \n 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.\n \n 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.\n \n SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359204794483,"sku":"9780241624814","price":632.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/28047473482273.jpg?v=1787572198","url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/products\/9780241624814","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}