heat dusters

[meliss]

Hi. What is a heat duster? It's the Alexander the Great's Afghan campaign, 330 BC.
"Three thoroughfares converge there; the approach lanes swarm with companies of cavalry, allies, and irregulars, and thousands of festival-goers on foot. The postnoon sun is blistering. Grit kicks up from a hundred heat dusters." (The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield.)

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi. What is a heat duster? It's the Alexander the Great's Afghan campaign, 330 BC.

I don't understand. You've asked a question and then given us an answer. What's the point?

 

[meliss]

I don't understand. You've asked a question and then given us an answer. What's the point?

Where is the answer? I 've just prcised the context. I still don't understand what a heat duster means.

 

[Tarheel]

I don't know what a heat duster is either. However, he is always referred to as Alexander the Great. (No "the".)

Do you use Google?

 

[emsr2d2]

Where is the answer? I've just precised the context. I still don't understand what a heat duster means is.

I'm saying that this ...

What is a heat duster?
It's the Alexander the Great's Afghan campaign, 330 BC.

... looks like a question followed by the answer to that question.

Did you mean to write something like "The quote that follows is taken from a book about Alexander the Great's Afghan campaign of 330BC"?

 

[PeterCW]

"Heat dusters" isn't a term that I have ever come across. From passages that you have posted previously I have the impression that Pressfield makes these expressions up to make his writing more colourful.

A native speaker will usually be able to interpret them from the context. In this case the hot grit is being kicked up by the feet of the troops and festival goers.

 

[Skrej]

I'd take them to be small dust devils or whirlwinds.