Description:
A New York Times Bestseller
Special Jury Citation for the Banff Mountain Books Prize
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
An ABA Indie Next Pick
An Economist, New Yorker, and Guardian Best Book of the Year
A Time Must-Read Book of the Year
One of NPR's "Books We Love" of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Work of the Year
"As beautiful as the rivers and the hope he's describing." --Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times
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: Macfarlane travels through territory so rugged that 'even the trout have portage trails, ' returning with hard-won wisdom about our evanescence and, one hopes, a river's permanence and power to shape our lives for the better.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review