White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World

"At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed-a beautiful book." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky

A profound and poetic reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it-told through the fate of phosphorus

“There would be no life without constant death.” So begins Jack Lohmann's remarkable debut, White Light, a mesmerizing swirl of ecology, geology, chemistry, history, agricultural science, investigative re...