{"product_id":"is-a-river-alive","title":"Is a River Alive?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Robert Macfarlane \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding \"yes\" to the question of its title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young \"rights of nature\" movement has lit up activists, artists, law-makers and politicians across six continents—and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book flows like water, from the mountains to the sea, over three major journeys. The first is to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by Canadian gold-mining. The second is to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is underway. The third is to northeastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river—the Mutehekau or Magpie—is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign led by an extraordinary Innu poet and leader called Rita Mestokosho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs A River Alive? is at once a literary work of art, a rallying cry and a catalyst for change. It is a book that will open hearts, spark debates and challenge perspectives. A clarion call to re-centre rivers in our stories, law and politics, it invites us to radically re-imagine not only rivers but life itself. At the heart of this vital, beautiful book is the recognition that our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699622711383,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/0329\/8391\/files\/81rnY5G8ZhL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776120431","url":"https:\/\/redpegasus.ca\/products\/is-a-river-alive","provider":"Red Pegasus","version":"1.0","type":"link"}