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Review: Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Random House)
Robert Macfarlane is not easy to pin down – song writer, nature writer,
children’s author, environmental activist, documentary film maker, mountain
climber and restless adventurer, spoken word performer, literary historian,
librettist, linguist and researcher. Likewise, his books are so various and yet
so much themselves, it seems he has forged his own genre.
He has won many kinds of prizes for his books, so many that he has been spoken
of as a likely Nobel Prize winner several times over the past few years. Each
of his books changes the world a little, possibly sometimes profoundly.
His latest takes as its title and starting point a question his young son once
put to him, “Is a River Alive?” If we can talk of rivers dying (and we do),
then isn’t there an assumption somewhere along that line of thought that a
river does indeed constitute a life?
MacFarlane lives south of Cambridge, England, not far from a rare chalk stream
spring that feeds the early reaches of the River Cam, which flows through the
town. This is one of the four troubled rivers he explores across the pages of
his book."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
