{"title":"Elizabeth Rush","description":"Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Rush's work has appeared in a wide range of publications from the New York Times to Orion and Guernica. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Metcalf Institute. She lives with her husband and kids in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.","products":[{"product_id":"the-quickening-antarctica-motherhood-and-cultivating-hope-in-a-warming-world-paperback","title":"The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e Best Travel Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Housatonic Book Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable mention for the SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of hope.\"--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder a White Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: the ominous Thwaites Glacier at Antarctica's western edge. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans. And with them is author Elizabeth Rush, who seeks, among other things, the elusive voice of the ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRush shares her story of a groundbreaking voyage punctuated by both the sublime--the tangible consequences of our melting icecaps; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites--and the everyday moments of living and working in community. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for the human and more-than-human worlds. Along the way, Rush takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to create and celebrate life in a time of radical planetary change?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting and heroism 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 color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. Urgent, brave, and vulnerable, \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening \u003c\/i\u003eis an absorbing account of hope from one of our most celebrated and treasured contemporary authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376936157407,"sku":"9781571311795","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/npTtZ06I_09781571311795.webp?v=1789229002"},{"product_id":"rising-dispatches-from-the-new-american-shore-paperback","title":"Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as \"deeply felt\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), \"a revelation\" (\u003cem\u003ePacific Standard\u003c\/em\u003e), and \"the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eRising\u003c\/em\u003e is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. 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