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This carefully but also eclectically flung together A to Z of the fine and gritty world of sand includes entries of varying lengths (between 60 and 600 words) that sample a wide range of sandy meanings, on and off-beach, from the bio-ecological to the politico-legal and from specific places to notable individuals, in Britain and beyond: Arenophile; Biogenic sand; Cleopatra’s Beach; Dredging; Extra-Terrestrial sand; Fennec fox; Goodwin Sands; Hourglass; Iwo Jima; Jaywick Sands; Kahana Beach; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek; Margate; Nurdle Beach; Omaha Beach; Psammophile; Quicksand; Right kind of sand; Sandman; TIGL (Trump International Golf Links); Uber beach bag; Volcanic sand; Wet sand; Xanadu Beach; Yemen; and Cra-Z-Sand.
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Coates, P. (2020). An Eclectic A–Z of Sand: Removing, Treasuring, Recreating and Protecting. In: Carruthers, J., Dakkak, N. (eds) Sandscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44780-9_3
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