Sand: the never-ending story

Individuals : birth and character

Tribes : the strange world of granular materials

Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things

Societies on the move : a journey to the sea

Moving on : waves, tides, and storms

Blowing in the wind : desert landscapes

Witness : testaments of sand

Sand and imagination II : stories, medium, and muse

Servant : sand in our lives

Outward and onward : beyond Earth, beyond the present

Epilogue : A desert mystery.