| Contents |
Individuals : birth and character -- Tribes : the strange world of granular materials -- Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things -- Societies on the move : a journey to the sea -- Moving on : waves, tides, and storms -- Blowing in the wind : desert landscapes -- Witness : testaments of sand -- Sand and imagination II : stories, medium, and muse -- Servant : sand in our lives -- Outward and onward : beyond Earth, beyond the present. |
| Abstract |
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008009084 |
| ISBN | 9780520254374 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520254376 (cloth : alk. paper) |
