Is a River Alive?
FOUR RIVERS RUN THROUGH IT
Our 67th Edition for the Summer of 2025 coincides with the American publication of Is a River Alive?, a brilliant and important new book by author Robert Macfarlane. Recounting three epic journeys, Macfarlane surveys the state of Earth’s rivers and the people who are fighting for them. It’s an impossibly large story that is interwoven with a fourth river tale which reveals an extremely personal one.
Macfarlane is a Field Notes user and occasional co-conspirator. We first worked with him a few years ago, making a companion 3-Pack to his book, Underland. We were thrilled to learn that once again, with Is a River Alive?, Field Notes played an important part in his writing process:
“These notebooks were my constant companions during the years of writing Is A River Alive?; always there in pocket or pack. Into them I poured the glitter of primary encounter; image, dialogue, idea. They got dog-eared and foxed and soaked –– and filled with words. The closing of the circle which now sees a new ‘River’ edition of Field Notes flowing out of the finished book makes me very happy indeed.”
MEANDER
Also returning is Macfarlane’s frequent collaborator, legendary visual artist Stanley Donwood, best known for his artwork for Radiohead and The Smile.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
- Cover: Sappi McCoy Silk 100#C “White,” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks, UV gloss coating and matte varnish, and sculpted emboss.
- Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “White,” with a fine, 1-color application of “Cloud Forest Grey” soy-based ink.
- Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone G40" 6-color UV printing press.
- Bound by a Muller Martini Presto II saddle stitcher with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
- Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge round-corner machine.
- Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
- FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
- All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
- Limited Edition of 30,000 3-Packs.
FOUR RIVERS RUN THROUGH IT
Our 67th Edition for the Summer of 2025 coincides with the American publication of Is a River Alive?, a brilliant and important new book by author Robert Macfarlane. Recounting three epic journeys, Macfarlane surveys the state of Earth’s rivers and the people who are fighting for them. It’s an impossibly large story that is interwoven with a fourth river tale which reveals an extremely personal one.
Macfarlane is a Field Notes user and occasional co-conspirator. We first worked with him a few years ago, making a companion 3-Pack to his book, Underland. We were thrilled to learn that once again, with Is a River Alive?, Field Notes played an important part in his writing process:
“These notebooks were my constant companions during the years of writing Is A River Alive?; always there in pocket or pack. Into them I poured the glitter of primary encounter; image, dialogue, idea. They got dog-eared and foxed and soaked –– and filled with words. The closing of the circle which now sees a new ‘River’ edition of Field Notes flowing out of the finished book makes me very happy indeed.”
MEANDER
Also returning is Macfarlane’s frequent collaborator, legendary visual artist Stanley Donwood, best known for his artwork for Radiohead and The Smile.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
- Cover: Sappi McCoy Silk 100#C “White,” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks, UV gloss coating and matte varnish, and sculpted emboss.
- Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “White,” with a fine, 1-color application of “Cloud Forest Grey” soy-based ink.
- Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone G40" 6-color UV printing press.
- Bound by a Muller Martini Presto II saddle stitcher with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
- Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge round-corner machine.
- Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
- FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
- All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
- Limited Edition of 30,000 3-Packs.