The Quickening : Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World.

Rush, Elizabeth.

The Quickening : Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World. - First paperback edition. - 397 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-392).

Cast of characters -- Act one. Departures ; Stalled ; First passage -- Act two. Into the ice ; Islands ; Between the past and the future -- Act three. Arrival ; Nameless bay ; Underneath -- Act four. The quickening ; Holding season ; Going to pieces -- Prologue -- Epilogue.

"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"-- "In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. 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. In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition. 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." --

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Nature--Effect of human beings on--Antarctica.
Explorers--Antarctica.
Climatic changes.
Women and the environment.
Motherhood.
Explorateurs--Antarctique.
Climat--Changements.
Femmes et environnement.
climate change.
maternity.


Antarctica--Description and travel.
Antarctica--Environmental conditions.
Antarctique--Descriptions et voyages.
Antarctique--Conditions environnementales.


Informational works.
Documents d'information.

G860 / .R87 2024

998.9

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