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Air - The Restless Shaper of the World (Paperback)
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Air - The Restless Shaper of the World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live,
exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and
rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty
thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a
square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids, the
ultraviolet sight of swifts, a newborn's awareness of its mother's
breast-all take place in the medium of air. Ignorance of the air is
costly. The artist Eva Hesse died of inhaling her fiberglass
medium. Thousands were sickened after 9/11 by supposedly "safe"
air. The African Sahel suffers drought in part because we fill the
air with industrial dusts. With the passionate narrative style and
wide-ranging erudition that have made William Bryant Logan's work a
touchstone for nature lovers and environmentalists, Air is-like the
contents of a bag of seaborne dust that Darwin collected aboard the
Beagle-a treasure trove of discovery.
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