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One square inch of silence : one man's search for natural silence in a noisy world / Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann.

By: Hempton, Gordon.
Contributor(s): Grossmann, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Free Press, 2009Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.Description: vii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).ISBN: 9781416559085 (trade); 1416559086 (trade).Subject(s): Hempton, Gordon -- Anecdotes | Ecologists -- United States -- Anecdotes | Nature sounds -- Recording and reproducing | Hempton, Gordon -- Anecdotes | Ecologists -- Anecdotes | Nature sounds | CD-ROMsGenre/Form: CD-ROMs.DDC classification: 333.78/216/0973
Contents:
Silent thunder -- The quiet path -- Hitting the road -- Urban wilderness -- Endangered quiet beauty -- The earth exposed -- The rocky road to quietude -- Nature's symphony in decline -- Toxic noise -- Seeking Muir's music -- Hundred-mile walk to Washington -- Washington, D.C.
Summary: Recounts Gordon Hempton's road trip across the U.S., from west to east, recording natural sounds of the landscape, from bugling elk to endangered prairie chickens, with a CD of his recordings and photographs from the journey that preceeded his case for natural silence preservation in Washington, D.C.
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Recounts Gordon Hempton's road trip across the U.S., from west to east, recording natural sounds of the landscape, from bugling elk to endangered prairie chickens, with a CD of his recordings and photographs from the journey that preceeded his case for natural silence preservation in Washington, D.C.

Includes index.

Silent thunder -- The quiet path -- Hitting the road -- Urban wilderness -- Endangered quiet beauty -- The earth exposed -- The rocky road to quietude -- Nature's symphony in decline -- Toxic noise -- Seeking Muir's music -- Hundred-mile walk to Washington -- Washington, D.C.

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