The Quickening : Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World.
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions, 2024Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 397 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781571311795
- 1571311793
- 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
- 998.9
- G860 .R87 2024
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-392).
Cast of characters -- Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue.
"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"-- Provided by publisher.
"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." -- Adapted from publisher's description.