The Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes, John Wiley, $22.95, ISBN
0471377430
WE INHALE it, eat it and walk around in our own personal clouds of it. Dust
is always with us, but in spite of the size and ubiquity of its tiny particles
it’s far from unimportant. It can have world-shaping impact. Take the soils of
Jamaica and Barbados: they began life as sand blown a speck at a time from the
Sahara.
In The Secret Life of Dust science journalist Hannah Holmes dates her
obsession with dust to a visit to the Gobi Desert. It’s an entertaining…
