About the book: Celebrated nature writer Robert Macfarlane argues that rivers are most definitely alive. He takes us through the importance of rivers not just geographically, but personally and politically, from the distant past to the potential future, with a particular focus on rivers and the humans fighting to save them. In these pages, you will travel to a cloud-forest in Ecuador, lagoons in India, and the great Mutehekau in Quebec, as Macfarlane engages with indigenous ideas of rivers as their own biological systems.

About the author: Robert Macfarlane is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English in Cambridge. He is well-known as a writer about nature, climate, landscape, people and place, and his books –– which include Underland (2019), a book-length prose-poem Ness (2018), Landmarks (2015), The Old Ways (2012) and Mountains of the Mind (2003) –– have been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for music, film, television, radio and theatre.