The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

by Elizabeth Rush

Book Overview

An NPR Best Book of the Year
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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571313966
• ISBN13: 9781571313966
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"