Is a River Alive?

A Guardian "Nonfiction to Look Forward To in 2025" Recommendation . A Washington Post "Book to Watch For" in 2025 . A Financial Times "What to Read in 2025" Recommendation . A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2025
From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer...of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers-and life itself.

Robert Macfarlane's best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.