The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are

Citing the significant percentage of paved and unnatural ground surfaces in the United States today, an exploration of the ground’s significant relationship to the world’s food, water and energy shares the stories of subsurface technologies and traditions while illuminating how the ground reveals humanity-defining facts. By an award-winning author. 30,000 first printing.