Description:
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.
"As beautiful as the rivers and the hope he's describing." --Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the 2026 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
Winner of the 2026 Nautilus Book Award
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Special Jury Citation for the Banff Mountain Books Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Economist, Guardian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly - A Time Must-Read Book - One of NPR's "Books We Love" - A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
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: Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece.-- "Economist"