Dust. The History of the Modern World in a Trillion Dust Particles
Dust travels across continents, sketching the history of our world and its transformations. From the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s to the icy shields of Greenland today, through the dusty seabed of the now-dried Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and...
the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl, this book explores what dust is and what impact it has on our lives. The modern world, after all, is held together and permeated by dust. In the pages of the book, we will meet people who have to live among dust storms, activists who have challenged dust and are trying to combat it, and those whom it has expelled from their familiar habitats.
Dust travels across continents, sketching the history of our world and its transformations. From the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s to the icy shields of Greenland today, through the dusty seabed of the now-dried Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl, this book explores what dust is and what impact it has on our lives. The modern world, after all, is held together and permeated by dust. In the pages of the book, we will meet people who have to live among dust storms, activists who have challenged dust and are trying to combat it, and those whom it has expelled from their familiar habitats.
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