Robert Macfarlane

IS A RIVER ALIVE?Macfarlane is Englands best nature writer.

The SpectatorEveryone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book.

It is a masterpiece The EconomistRobert Macfarlane explores the ancient idea that rivers are living beings in his most personal and political book to date; an idea that has taken on new relevance and urgency as we face a planet battling the effects of climate change.

His journey takes him from northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining, to to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India and finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.

Sharing stories and insights Macfarlane shows how our fate is tied into that of our rivers.Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place.

His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks and The Wild Places , as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness .In conversation withBen MorrisIn association with Clean Up the River Brent (CURB) [https://www.brentriverpark.org/campaigns/curbs/]Event duration: 1 hour