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In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carsons 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 nations fastestdisappearing resource, warns Emmywinning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its varietybefore these soulsoothing terrestrial soundscapes vanish completely in the everrising din of manmade noise. Recalling the great works on nature written by John Muir, John McPhee, and Peter Matthiessen, this beautifully written narrative, coauthored with John Grossmann, is also a quintessentially American storya 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 decibelmeasuring soundlevel meter, Hempton bends an inquisitive and loving ear to the varied natural voices of the American landscapebugling 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 Kerouacs 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 Americas last naturally quiet places, in Olympic National Park in Washington State.
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