Is a River Alive? Sophie Mackintosh Some people like hugs but

Some people like hugs but others don't

After living in the US for years

is notorious for behaving improperly

” ―Ben Fountain

is pregnant and his beloved servant Pan

Is a River Alive? Sophie Mackintosh Some people like hugs butHailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable