罗伯特·麦克法兰：河流是活的吗？（“行走文学三部曲”作者新作）

Is A River Alive?

基本信息

Format:Hardback 384 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Hamish Hamilton Ltd

ISBN:9780241624814

Published:1 May 2025

Weight:592g

Dimensions:243 x 160 x 35 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

知名作家罗伯特·麦克法兰的这本才华横溢、视角转换的新书，以其响亮的“是”回答了书名所提出的疑问。其核心是一个单一且具有变革意义的理念：河流不仅仅是供人类使用的物质，更是生命体——它们应该在想象和法律层面上都得到认可。《河流是活的吗？》带领读者开启一场激动人心的探索之旅，探索这一古老而紧迫概念的过去、现在和未来。

本书起先深入厄瓜多尔北部，那里神奇的云雾森林及其河流正受到金矿开采的威胁。然后，本书又深入印度南部受损的河流、小溪和泻湖，那里正在进行一场拯救这些水体生命的殊死搏斗。末尾，本书来到魁北克省东北部，在那里，一条壮观的野生河流——穆特赫考河（又名喜鹊河）——正在通过一场河流权利运动，筑坝保护其免遭毁灭。

《河流是活的吗？》是麦克法兰迄今为止具个人色彩和政治色彩的作品，它将打开心扉，引发辩论，并引领我们认识到，我们的命运与河流息息相关——而且始终如此。

From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.

The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining. Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.

At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has

作者简介

罗伯特·麦克法兰因其关于自然、人物和地点的写作而享誉国际。他的畅销书包括《地下世界》、《地标》、《古道》、《荒野之地》和《心灵之山》，以及一本散文诗集《内斯》。他的作品已被翻译成三十多种语言，在世界各地获奖，并被广泛改编为电影、音乐、戏剧、广播和舞蹈作品。他还创作了歌剧、戏剧和电影，包括由威廉·达福讲述的《河流》和《山脉》。他与奥拉维尔·埃利亚松和斯坦利·唐伍德等艺术家密切合作，并与艺术家杰基·莫里斯共同创作了国际畅销的自然诗歌与艺术书籍《失落的文字》和《失落的咒语》。作为一名作词家和表演者，他曾与科斯莫·谢尔德雷克、卡琳·波尔沃特和约翰尼·弗林等音乐家合作创作专辑和歌曲，并合作发行了两张专辑，分别是《迷失在雪松林》（2021年）和《月亮照常升起》（2023年）。2017年，美国艺术与文学学院授予他E.M.福斯特文学奖；2022年，他凭借在非虚构类文学领域的杰出成就，成为初届韦斯顿国际奖的获得者。他是剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院的研究员，目前正在与杰基·莫里斯合作完成他的第三部著作《迷失的鸟儿》。

Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris: The Lost Birds.