One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
- ISBN-10
- 1416559086
- ISBN-13
- 9781416559085
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-31
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Authors
- Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann
Description
Emmy Award-winning acoustic ecologist Hempton pens a beautifully written call to arms against the agents of manmade noise, in this eloquent defense of natural quiet that comes packaged with the author's astounding recordings of nature.
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- 2010-03-02
- 368 pages
- Paperback
- Atria Books
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- 2009-03-31
- 272 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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