Field Notes Quarterly Edition – Is a River Alive? (Special Edition)

The 67th Quarterly 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 Earths rivers and the people who are fighting for them. Its an impossibly large story, interwoven withan extremely personal fourth river tale.

Also returning is Macfarlanes frequent collaborator, legendary visualartist Stanley Donwood, best known for his artwork for Radiohead and TheSmile.

Donwoods starting point for theIs a River Alive?covers was his entrancing, hand-carved linocut titled Meander. Manipulation of the colors and textures of the resulting prints led to a series of works, two of which were chosen for the U.S.A. and U.K. editions of the book.

The highly textured and colorful covers are printed and embossed on Sappi McCoy 100#C Silk stock. Three gloss-white staples bind-in 48 Domtar Lynx 60#T pages featuring a Cloud Forest Gray graph grid.

Two of the three Memo Books in our 3-Pack reproduce the U.S.A. and U.K. hardcover edition covers, treated with matte, gloss, and reticulated U.V. varnishes. The third book features the labor of Donwoods artistic process, the linocut itselftreated with matte and gloss U.V. varnishes. The embossing and varnishes lend an added tactile element to Donwoods stunning visuals.

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 NOTESuses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
• 48 Pages Each
• AllFIELD NOTESmemo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.