Description:
A New York Times Bestseller
A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller
Finalist for the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature
Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, Economist, Guardian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly - One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 - One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2025 - One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2025 - A Chicago Public Library Top 10 Favorite Book of 2025 - A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction for 2025
From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer...of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers--and life itself.
Brief description: Robert Macfarlane's best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Review Quotes: A rich and visionary work of immense beauty. Robert Macfarlane is a memory keeper. What is broken in our societies, he mends with words. Rarely does a book hold such power, passion, and poetry in its exploration of nature. Read this to feel inspired, moved and, ultimately, alive with the world.--Elif Shafak, author of There Are Rivers in the Sky