One Square Inch of Silence: One Mans Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World Hempton GordonPaperback
One Square Inch of Silence: One Mans Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World Hempton GordonPaperback In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts…
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One Square Inch of Silence: One Mans Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World Hempton GordonPaperback
In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Recalling the great works on nature written by John Muir, John McPhee, and Peter Matthiessen, this beautifully written narrative, co-authored with John Grossmann, is also a quintessentially American story--a road trip across the continent from west to east in a 1964 VW bus. Natural silence is our nation's fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety--before these soul-soothing terrestrial soundscapes vanish completely in the ever-rising din of man-made noise.
Armed with his recording equipment and a decibel-measuring sound-level meter, Hempton bends an But no one has crossed America like this.
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