"Awesome, if you love Caravaggio then you need to read this book"

"I adored this book - a brilliant mixture of biography, mystery, art history and appreciation. Caravaggio's character and the genius of his art come to life magnificently. Absolutely riveting, highly recommend. "

"Robert Macfarlane is excellent at blending science, history and what it is like to walk the land while considering both. In this story, "Is a River Alive," he once again takes a huge topic and makes it approachable and fascinating. I finished feeling like I had learned a lot about the science and history of rivers, but also what it might have felt like to stand next to them as they formed, grew and changed over eons.
Of course, like all nature writing, the topic leads to some depressing and heavy topics: what have humans done that has hurt these rivers and their surroundings, and what can be done to make people aware of the great damage done and why it matters. Macfarlane addresses these issues in his usual way - with an urgentness that is wound into the beautiful prose of his writing.
Macfarlane has shown once again why he is one of the best nature writers for our time."

"beautiful and philosophically & politically timely and forgiving and eminently quotable as always. as always the themes of historical repetition, desire for a better & more generous life, pain of loss & redemption, thinness of generational division are so compelling in thien's work. will update this w some of my favorite quotes when it's out, but this is such a gorgeous extension and expansion of ideas explored in do not say we have nothing which as you know if you know me is my favorite book until the end of time "