Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world
Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah
Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the
planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we
breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts
and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments, scales
from butterfly wings, shreds of T-shirts, and fireplace soot. Eventually,
though, all this dust must settle.
The story of restless dust begins among exploding stars, then treks through the
dinosaur