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An ephemeral memorial in the sands of a Normandy beach

I realise that this post is later than it should have been, but I would be delinquent if I did not note this extraordinary event. A few years ago, on a dismal a...

October 1, 2013 2 min read

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October 2013

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

October 1, 2013 2 min read

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December 2013

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

December 1, 2013 1 min read

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The next book

The Greek word for ‘desert’ is eremos, from which comes ‘hermit,’ and that is exactly what I have been for quite a while. The word is appropriate because I have...

January 1, 2014 7 min read

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January 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

January 1, 2014 8 min read

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February 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

February 1, 2014 7 min read

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"Sand Wars" at the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival

The US Premiere of the documentary Sand Wars, to which your humble correspondent contributed, will be shown as part of the Environmental Film Festival in Washin...

March 1, 2014 1 min read

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The sands of Mars (again)

Periodically, I become absorbed in the wonders of the images on the Mars High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment site. I recently became exhausted by the pro...

March 1, 2014 1 min read

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March 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

March 1, 2014 1 min read

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April 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

April 1, 2014 6 min read

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The explosive unpredictability of travel

Three years ago we embarked in Bali and headed eastward, across the Wallace Line, and island-hopped for a while around the archipelago of Nusa Tenggara. We sail...

May 1, 2014 3 min read

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