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The Quickening Elizabeth Rush–PDF – EBook

The Quickening Elizabeth Rush–PDF – EBook

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Download The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush–PDF – EBook

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  • 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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