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marmoo 's review for:
Is a River Alive?
by Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane’s latest nonfiction exploration is less an answer to the titular question than to the immediate follow up: How would a river’s aliveness reshape our laws and worldviews?
As with all nature writing in an era of looming ecological collapse, there’s an elegiac tone to many of the accounts in this book, but Macfarlane seems more closely concerned with the potential for positive change in the nature rights movement.
As he sets out to expand our imagined possibilities for the legal fictions that are foundational to our social and financial structures, he takes readers with him on three memorable river-based excursions.
Stylistically, Macfarland frequently shifts into poet-mode here. I enjoyed the ride, even if I occasionally bumped on the loftier spiritual digressions and twirlier linguistic eddies.
As with all nature writing in an era of looming ecological collapse, there’s an elegiac tone to many of the accounts in this book, but Macfarlane seems more closely concerned with the potential for positive change in the nature rights movement.
As he sets out to expand our imagined possibilities for the legal fictions that are foundational to our social and financial structures, he takes readers with him on three memorable river-based excursions.
Stylistically, Macfarland frequently shifts into poet-mode here. I enjoyed the ride, even if I occasionally bumped on the loftier spiritual digressions and twirlier linguistic eddies.