Review: Is a River Alive

How can you not love Robert MacFarlane? His writing is erudite and interesting and reminds me very much of some of the best of nature writing.  And this book is right up there.

I did get a little discouraged at some of the realistic depictions of man’s atrocities. How could I not?  And I might have skipped at little bit at those points. But then he went on to describe rivers that are being preserved, and those parts were very encouraging. If you can stomach a little reality with your enjoyment, this is the perfect natural history book.