Is a River Alive? and indulgent desserts

and indulgent desserts

absorbing prose

Release the grip of people's expectations

and future

His job is to be the Eyes--to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park's elders

Is a River Alive? and indulgent dessertsHailed 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