Is a river alive? Review: Robert Macfarlane is wrong to broadcast rivers as a way of life in the new book

H7X53M Los Cedros River, Reserve Cotacachi-Cayapas, Ecuador

Los Cedros de Ecuador River is a source of information for Robert Macfarlane

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Is a river alive?
Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Books (United Kingdom) Ww norton (USA, May 20))

At the beginning of this book often beautiful, wild and very provocative, Robert Macfarlane tells by telling his son the title of his project. The child exclaims that, of course, a river is alive, so this will be a very short book. Macfarlane is not so sure, and I don’t even. It has been a long time since I felt so torn by a new writing.

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