The Quickening
Book description
An NPR Best Book of the Year
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Quickening as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Ever since I was a child, I've loved books about the Poles, so there was little doubt I would read The Quickening. What I found in these pages was a startling new kind of story about Antarctica, one I'd never experienced before. As a journalist, I'm drawn to stories by other journalists who observe and describe the world through their own lenses, but rarely are these stories told with the immediacy of such a personal narrative juxtaposed against the immensity of an external landscape that looms large and distant and foreign in our collective consciousness. This is the honest, hopeful…