5 Moving On: Waves, Tides, and Storms

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1 Individuals: Birth and Character 1
6. 2 Tribes: The Strange World of Granular Materials 31
7. 3 Sand and Imagination I: Very Large Numbers of Very Small Things 66
8. 4 Societies on the Move: A Journey to the Sea 77
9. 5 Moving On: Waves, Tides, and Storms 107
10. 6 Blowing in the Wind: Desert Landscapes 146
11. 7 Witness: Testaments of Sand 176
12. 8 Sand and Imagination II: Stories, Medium, and Muse 214
13. 9 Servant: Sand in Our Lives 234
14. 10 Outward and Onward: Beyond Earth, beyond the Present 272
15. Epilogue: A Desert Mystery 301
16. Sources and Further Reading 305
17. Index 323