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In Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane challenges himself, and others, to find a new way to write about nature. Frederic Edwin Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859. Written in 1798, Samuel Taylor ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Educators are scrambling to revise lesson plans after sexual abuse allegations surfaced against César Chávez.

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