{"product_id":"the-quickening-by-elizabeth-rush-9781571313966","title":"The Quickening","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn August 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Book of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA WBUR Summer Reading Recommendation\u003cbr\u003eA Next Big Idea Club's August 2023 Must-Read Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of \u003ci\u003eRising\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 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 takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to bring a child into the world at this time of radical change?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of colour, whose labour has often gone unrecognised. \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e teems with their voices—with the colourful stories and personalities of Rush's shipmates—in a thrilling chorus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUrgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855216791788,"sku":"9781571313966","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/06c69aee2caf1610023a6317fe9ea57e.jpg?v=1759279542","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-quickening-by-elizabeth-rush-9781571313966","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}