TY - BOOK AU - Rush,Elizabeth TI - The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World SN - 9781571311795 AV - G860 .R87 2024 U1 - 998.9 PY - 2024/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Milkweed Editions KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Antarctica KW - Explorers KW - Climatic changes KW - Women and the environment KW - Motherhood KW - Explorateurs KW - Antarctique KW - Climat KW - Changements KW - Femmes et environnement KW - climate change KW - aat KW - maternity KW - Description and travel KW - Environmental conditions KW - Descriptions et voyages KW - Conditions environnementales KW - Informational works KW - lcgft KW - Documents d'information KW - rvmgf N1 - 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 N2 - "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." -- ER -