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Gordon Hempton |
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Biography & Autobiography · Nature · Reference · Science |
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Format: Other - PACKAGE, 356
Publisher: Free Pr (March 31, 2009)
Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.25 lbs.
ISBN: 9781416559085 |
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Gordon Hempton has one of the most seemingly ridiculous and redundant jobs in America-and also one of the most essential. Hempton is an "acoustic ecologist," who traveled across the entire country making recordings of silence. (Do I hear crickets chirping?) That's right, silence. Due to technology and urban sprawl, silence has become just as endangered as any species of wildlife, and Hempton is on a mission to preserve it before human noise becomes completely ubiquitous. He describes his rambling quest for quiet in this memoir that mixes equal parts of Rachel Carson, Robert Pirsig, and Jack Kerouac. Hempton's silence-scapes are actually recordings of purely natural sounds, made by buzzing insects, mewling elk, and clucking prairie chickens, and the book comes with a CD sampler of his work. |
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