The Quickening av Elizabeth Rush

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<span><p><b>A <i>Vogue</i> Most Anticipated Book of 2023</b></p><p><b><span>An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of </span><span><i>Rising</i></span><span>, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.</span></b></p><p><span>In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the </span><span>Nathaniel B. Palmer</span><span>. 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.</span></p><p><span>In </span><span><i>The Quickening</i></span><span>, 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