• The Adventures of a Grain of Dust, by Hallam Hawksworth

  • By: Mentor New York
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The Adventures of a Grain of Dust, by Hallam Hawksworth

By: Mentor New York
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  • This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to enrich the soil for farmers - each in its own special way. Join our narrator, The Grain of Dust on a fascinating journey around the planet to meet them. "I don't want you to think that I'm boasting, but I do believe I'm one of the greatest travellers that ever was; and if anybody, living or dead, has ever gone through with more than I have I'd like to hear about it. Not that I've personally been in all the places or taken part in all the things I tell in this book—I don't mean to say that—but I do ask you to remember how long it is possible for a grain of dust to last, and how many other far-travelled and much-adventured dust grains it must meet and mix with in the course of its life. ...Finally, if what we call flesh and blood can think and talk, why not a grain of dust? In fact, what is flesh and blood but dust come back to life? Says the poet—and the poets know: 'The very dust that blows along the street Once whispered to its love that life is sweet.' You see it's as likely a thing as could happen—this whole story." Summary by J. M. Smallheer with quotes from the Preface of the book
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Episodes
  • 12 - The Brotherhood of the Dust

    12 - The Brotherhood of the Dust
    Jul 16 2023
    25 mins
  • 11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night

    11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night
    Jul 16 2023
    24 mins
  • 10 - The Busy Fingers of the Roots

    10 - The Busy Fingers of the Roots
    Jul 16 2023
    22 mins

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