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: Robert Macfarlane is a magician with words. His writing is like a vortex ... once caught, you're pulled deeper and deeper with each page.--Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature