Rivers are generally characterized by their long, meandering courses that flow through landscapes before spilling into oceans ...

GWIN: So after years of obsessing over his grandfather’s story, Andrés found the legendary boiling river. But the big mystery—why few people in the outside world seemed to know about it ...

What results from this groundwork is a raw, delicate glimpse at the power and strength of the natural world, leaving readers with a strong acceptance of Macfarlane’s argument — that a river is ...