Hannah Holmes

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...

The author of the acclaimed "The Well-Dressed Ape" enlightens and amuses readers in a fun, funny, and even quirky look at personality and contemporary brain science.