Elizabeth Rush 
The Quickening [EPUB ebook] 
Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

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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—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?

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.

Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, The Quickening is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush.

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Cast of Characters 1


Prologue 5

 

ACT ONE

Part One | Departures 13

Part Two | Stalled 43

Part Three | First Passage 61

 

ACT TWO

Part One | Into the Ice 97

Part Two | Islands 119

Part Three | Between the Past and the Future 163

 

ACT THREE

Part One | Arrival 197

Part Two | Nameless Bay 213

Part Three | Underneath 247

 

ACT FOUR

Part One | The Quickening 277

Part Two | Holding Season 299

Part Three | Going to Pieces 323

 

Epilogue 345

Notes 359 Acknowledgments 392

Sobre o autor

Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Rush’s work has appeared in a wide range of publications from the New York Times to Orion and Guernica. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Howard Foundation among others.  She splits her time between Bogota, Colombia and Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9781571317421 ● Tamanho do arquivo 6.8 MB ● Editora Milkweed Editions ● País US ● Publicado 2023 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 9085727 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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