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Dust - The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (Paperback)
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Dust - The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (Paperback)
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List price R435
Loot Price R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
You Save R87 (20%)
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DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book
with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with
an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane __________
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a
vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from
the birth of the sun. Within the next hundred years, human life on
swathes of the earth's surface will also end, in a haze of heat,
drought and, again, dust. Dust is the legacy of twentieth-century
progress and a profound threat to life in the twenty-first. And yet
it's something we hardly ever consider - so small and so mundane as
to be beyond the threshold of thought. All of history is recorded
in the dust we create: the pollution we make, the fires we start,
the chemicals we use, the volcanos that erupt. Now, for the first
time DUST will examine this substance and reveal it's importance
and the fascinating stories it has.
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