Robert Macfarlane: A river is a living participant in a living world
Robert Macfarlane
The Tablet Interview: Maggie Fergusson talks to Robert Macfarlane
I’ve been a fan of Macfarlane’s books – Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, Underland – for years. But for scope, depth and self-investment, Is a River Alive? is his most astonishing yet. It takes us from the source of the Rio Los Cedros in the cloud forest in Ecuador to the “wounded” rivers and lagoons of Chennai in India, and finally to Mutehekau Shipu in Quebec: rivers threatened by mining, pollution and dams. And pulsing through the narrative is the question of its title: Is a River Alive?
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