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Thirst

In Search of Freshwater

Robert Macfarlane Lucy Jones Rebecca Solnit

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English
Wellcome Collection
03 July 2025
An urgent, evocative collection of writings celebrating the source of all life: freshwater, our most precious resource.

Dive into the depths of a Berlin lake, journey from the Thames to the banks of the Nile, and meet Black Mary, the keeper of a lost seventeenth-century healing well in London.

This is an urgent, evocative collection of writings celebrating the source of all life: freshwater, our most precious resource.

Robin Wall Kimmerer observes a raindrop fall on a carpet of dry moss and asks what we can learn about community, resilience and living small from mosses, one of the earth's oldest plants. Lucy Jones steps her way through nettles and willowherb to listen to the running river water near her home, cooling the heat of a busy mind. And Vandana Shiva campaigns for water justice - reminding us that we are all participants in the Earth's water cycle.

Featuring twenty writers, including

Olivia Laing, Elif Shafak, Rebecca Solnit and Ocean Vuong, this is a treasury of writings on hope for ecological abundance, desire, beauty - and restorative planetary justice.

These are the vital myths and memories that flow through water.
Foreword by:  
Contributions by:   ,
Imprint:   Wellcome Collection
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 110mm, 
Weight:   130g
ISBN:   9781999809058
ISBN 10:   199980905X
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

With a foreword by celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place, including bestselling books Underland and The Lost Words. Contributors include: Natalie Diaz, Rebecca Solnit, Elif Shafak, Vandana Shiva, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Lora Aziz, Ocean Vuong, Anthony Acciavatti, Karan Shrestha, Gaylene Gould and Calthorpe, Lucille Clifton, Lucy Jones, Jalaluddin Rumi, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jessica J. Lee, Olivia Laing, Joycelyn Longdon, Georges Perec, Yasmine Hafez.

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