03207cam a2200325 4500 939805546 TxAuBib 20230817120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781571317421 1571317422 B0BSFWNV6Z Amazon be30d10b-233e-4453-82fa-664a1e56f04f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9556659 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rush, Elizabeth. The Quickening [Libby] : Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. Milkweed Editions, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6623kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Nature. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of <i>Rising</i>, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>In <i>The Quickening</i>, 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. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for and protecting human life in a place that is inhospitable to it. 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?</p> <p>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. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. 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. The Quickening teems with their voices—with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush's shipmates—in a thrilling chorus.</p>Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, <i>The Quickening</i> is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-17 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=be30d10b-233e-4453-82fa-664a1e56f04f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=be30d10b-233e-4453-82fa-664a1e56f04f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=be30d10b-233e-4453-82fa-664a1e56f04f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)