An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, The Quickening is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush..
The Quickening teems with their voices--with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush\'s shipmates--in a thrilling chorus.
With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized.
With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries.
Along the way, she takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to bring a child into the world at this time of radical change? What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future.
All the effort that goes into caring for and protecting human life in a place that is inhospitable to it.
Long hours in the lab.
A ping-pong tournament at sea.
In The Quickening , Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime--seeing an iceberg for the first time; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites--alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition.
Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise.
Their destination: Thwaites Glacier.
Palmer.
In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B.
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
