The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World

by Elizabeth Rush

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection

Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction

"The Quickening is a book of hope."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky

An astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.

In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571311793
• ISBN13: 9781571311795
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.9"