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portada one square inch of silence,one man´s search for natural silence in a noisy world (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
356
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
Dimensiones
22.1 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm
Peso
0.36 kg.
ISBN
9781416559108
ISBN13
9781416559108

one square inch of silence,one man´s search for natural silence in a noisy world (en Inglés)

Gordon Hempton (Autor) · John Grossmann (Autor) · Atria Books · Tapa Blanda

one square inch of silence,one man´s search for natural silence in a noisy world (en Inglés) - Hempton, Gordon ; Grossmann, John

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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. 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. 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. But no one has crossed America like this. Armed with his recording equipment and a decibel-measuring sound-level meter, Hempton bends an inquisitive and loving ear to the varied natural voices of the American landscape--bugling elk, trilling thrushes, and drumming, endangered prairie chickens. He is an equally patient and perceptive listener when talking with people he meets on his journey about the importance of quiet in their lives. By the time he reaches his destination, Washington, D.C., where he meets with federal officials to press his case for natural silence preservation, Hempton has produced a historic and unforgettable sonic record of America. With the incisiveness of Jack Kerouac's observations on the road and the stirring wisdom of Robert Pirsig repairing an aging vehicle and his life, One Square Inch of Silence provides a moving call to action. More than simply a book, it is an actual place, too, located in one of America's last naturally quiet places, in Olympic National Park in Washington State.

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