![]() ![]() She’s got an ability to make even a small moment resonate, such as her child’s serendipitous discovery of a carnivorous sundew plant, with sharp prose and quick pacing. Beer also covers chemistry (“The willingness of these copious ingredients to combine makes water very abundant stuff”), climate change, and the depiction of unusual water phenomena in literature (Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the haunting sound of water moving in The Hound of the Baskervilles). She lovingly details an encounter with a beaver in the wild and covers their reintroduction after extinction in the area, all in service of a broader look at the history of humanity’s “tinkering with” water flow, which goes back for millennia. In the wake of that loss, Beer began to study water in its many forms, from rivers of gas in the sky to glaciers that “groan and boom and spew rivers from their nostrils.” With a poet’s gift for description, Beer makes her global travels vivid. She opens with a tragedy: in 2012, Beer’s close friend died in a kayaking accident on the River Rawthey in North West England. It carries our chemistry and our stories,” writes biologist Beer ( Cool Nature) in this lyrical, moving survey. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness 1st Edición fue escrito por Amy-Jane Beer y publicado por Bloomsbury Wildlife. “We come from water, and water runs through us. ![]()
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