He has written 700 pages of a sand book but has never had the time to finish it.
The blogosphere has been buzzing with wild charges and vulgar abuse against Sand's book – most repeatedly, predictably and depressingly, calling it anti-Semitic.
A tin the children ate their meals from, toys stuffed with rags and sand, a book whose margins are filled with appointments pencilled by my grandmother, who was hairdresser for the women and children.
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Sandra Postel, author of "Pillar of Sand", a book about irrigation, maintains that, with the single exception of Egypt, no civilisation based on irrigation has survived for long, either because the water has run out, or because of silt, or because of salinisation.Yet it is modern engineering that has made possible irrigation disasters on a massive scale.
Not only does Miss DeLay make a point of hearing her ex-pupils perform whenever she can, but they clearly know, to judge from the evidence assembled in Ms. Sand's book, that they have been marked by her for life.
The stranger, who was a Scot from the Orkney Islands, told me the book was called the Book of Sand, "because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end".
Feith, reached on the phone, called Sands's book "wildly inaccurate".
Sands's book, "Torture Team," offers a scathing critique of officials in the Bush Administration, accusing them of complicity in acts of torture.
In Torture Team, Philippe Sands' 2008 book about Guantánamo Bay, Lieutenant Colonel Diane Beaver, a military lawyer from the camp, declared that Jack's attitude, "gave people a lot of ideas".
Sands's book is partly a family memoir, written with urgency and sensitivity, but its range is much wider, following the story of the men who introduced the two concepts quoted in his subtitle, genocide and crimes against humanity, as well as one of the perpetrators brought to justice at Nuremberg, Hans Frank.
