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An NPR Best Book of the Year

Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction

The Quickening is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky

An astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.

In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: the ominous Thwaites Glacier at Antarctica’s western edge. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans. And with them is author Elizabeth Rush, who seeks, among other things, the elusive voice of the ice.

Rush shares her story of a groundbreaking voyage punctuated by both the sublime—the tangible consequences of our melting icecaps; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites—and the everyday moments of living and working in community. A ping

The Quickening

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    Publisher: Milkweed Editions
    Publication Date: 9/26/2024
    ISBN13: 9781571311795, 978-1571311795
    ISBN10: 1571311793

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

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    An NPR Best Book of the Year

    Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction

    The Quickening is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky

    An astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.

    In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: the ominous Thwaites Glacier at Antarctica’s western edge. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans. And with them is author Elizabeth Rush, who seeks, among other things, the elusive voice of the ice.

    Rush shares her story of a groundbreaking voyage punctuated by both the sublime—the tangible consequences of our melting icecaps; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites—and the everyday moments of living and working in community. A ping

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