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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane is a work of contemporary nature writing that combines travel reportage, environmental history, cultural anthropology, and ecological philosophy. Its central question is whether rivers should be understood not as inert resources but as living beings with agency, vulnerability, and rights. Macfarlane approaches this idea through journeys to threatened river systems in Ecuador, India, and Canada, while also returning to a fragile chalk stream near his home in England. The book is not a technical legal treatise or a conventional science book, although it draws on both law and ecology. Its purpose is broader and more imaginative: to change the moral and perceptual frame through which readers encounter rivers. By connecting Indigenous worldviews, environmental activism, legal personhood campaigns, and close observation of water systems, Macfarlane argues that how societies imagine rivers has direct consequences for how they protect or damage them.