About the book
Journalist Vince Beiser makes the case that sand, after water and air, is the natural resource people consume most, ahead even of oil. Concrete buildings, paved roads, computer screens and silicon chips all depend on it, as did the pyramids of Egypt and the Hubble telescope, and the supply of usable sand is running out. Beiser travels from the United States to India, China and Dubai to report on the people who mine, sell and build with sand, including island builders and sand pirates who kill for it. He also weighs the human and environmental costs of a dependence that has drawn little public attention.
Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson endorsed it as a well-written investigation into the many things the world has built from sand, with something new on every page.
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Nicholas Thompson (Editor in Chief/Wired)
A riveting, wonderfully written investigation into the many kinds of castles the world has built out of sand. You'll find something new, and something fascinating, on every page. Perhaps even in every paragraph.
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