Elizabeth RushBesprekingen

Rush joins a research crew that is saling to Antarctica to carry out research. She is a journalist. Her description of the voyage and the dangers and her fellow passengers are fascinating. She also considers the climate change she sees in Antarctica and how it could impact the child she is hoping to have.

Pregnancy compared to a trip to Antarctica.

Read my review in Earth Island Journal. http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/lives_on_the_vulner...

The Reading Across Rhode Island selection for 2020.

I congratulate the selection committee for another great choice.

To some it seems a stretch that the author included the section on the spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, but I think that works as an example of environmental work that has been successful. I think we need such examples when we contemplate climate change and sea-level rise.

This is a scientific book, but the writing is lyrical, and the people in it, including the author, are real with real feelings.

I did not finish this book, although it was very good, but I can't figure out how to take it off my currently reading list without marking it read. Marking it not-reading doesn't do it!

This book was pure cozy delight. My eldest son wrote his first (and probably only) fan letter to Elizabeth Rush; he was probably all of 6 or 7 years old at the time.

And she wrote back! and thereby won my heart forever. It is a thoroughly lovely and gentle book.