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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