Powell's Presents: Robert Macfarlane in Conversation With Ferris Jabr

From the bestselling author of Underland and "the great nature writer…of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) comes a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers — and life itself. Hailed 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? (W. W. Norton) 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 journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada — imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane’s house, a stream who flows through his own years and days. Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers — and always has. Macfarlane will be joined in conversation by Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth.

Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/robert-macfarlane-in-conversation-with-ferris-jabr-6-11-25

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