Description:
The KPU Climate+ Challenge, Wild Spaces, and KPU Library invite you to join us for a virtual book club where we will discuss Is a River Alive? by British nature writer Robert Macfarlane. This session is facilitated by Lee Beavington, Learning Strategist and Climate + Challenge Fellow, and Sue Fairburn, Faculty of Design and Climate + Challenge Fellow.
This compelling book poses the question: What does it mean to recognize a river as a living being?
Critics have described the work as an “impassioned, resounding affirmative to the title’s urgent question” (John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather) and a “river of poetic prose” (Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late). Is a River Alive? has been nominated for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Literature.
To participate in the Climate+ Challenge Book Club, borrow Is a River Alive? from KPU Library (see our library catalogue for print, audio and e-book versions) or at another book provider, and register online via Teams.
This session is open to all.
Questions? Ask the library.