The quickening : creation and community at the ends of the Earth

Summary: In 2019, the ship the Nathaniel B. Palmer set out for Thwaites Glacier, never before visited by humans. The crew's goal: to learn as much as possible about the deterioration of the "Doomsday Glacier" and its potentially catastrophic impact on rising sea levels. Rush provides an astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change-- and motherhood in a time of radical planetary change. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 1571313966
ISBN: 9781571313966
Physical Description: 397 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cast of characters -- Prologue -- Act one : Departures ; Stalled ; First passage -- Act two : Into the ice ; Islands ; Between the past and the future -- Act three : Arrival ; Nameless bay ; Underneath -- Act four : The quickening ; Holding season ; Going to pieces -- Epilogue.