Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

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etrain's review against another edition

3.5
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2.75
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cstacey's review against another edition

4.0
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kalliegrace's review against another edition

4.0
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look, this is silly, but this is so beautiful I kept losing my focus so that was annoying. the rivers will outlive us all and rightfully so. 
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3.75
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4.5
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5.0
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4.0
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joshniesse's review against another edition

4.75
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An urgent animist manifesto and lyrical eco-travelogue that beautifully reimagines our relationship with the natural world. MacFarlane journeys to three rivers across he globe where activists are fighting to grant legal personhood to the natural world. If corporations can be "persons" why not riversheds? This extraordinary book is both political provocation and poetic celebration—urging us to listen, to act, and to recognize rivers not as property, but as kin.

ellie_cripps's review against another edition

4.0
Exceptionally elegantly written, a driving force that I hope will help push others towards raising their voices for the entities that cannot speak for themselves.