- Authors: Tessa Hadley
- File Size: 6 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Paperback: 424 pages
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions
- Language: English
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- Year : 2023
- ISBN-10: 1571313966
- ISBN-13: 9781571313966
Download The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush–PDF – EBook
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 documentsir 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...
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