Natural History of Silence

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781509564019
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence, but what is silence exactly?  Is it the total absence of sound?  Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans – the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape covered in snow, far away from the bustle of human life? 

When we listen closely, silence reveals a neglected reality. Neither empty nor singular, silence is instead plentiful and multiple.  In this book, eco-acoustic historian Jérôme Sueur allows us to discover a vast landscape of silences which trigger the full gamut of our emotions: anxiety, awe and peace. He takes us from vistas resplendent with full and rich natural silences to the everyday silence of predators as they stalk their prey. To seek out silences in animal behaviour and ecology is also to discover a counterpoint to the acoustic diversity of the natural world and to throw into sharp relief the grating reverberations of the human activity which threatens it. It is to attune ourselves to a world that our human insensitivities have closed off to us, to take a moment simply to breathe and listen to the place of silence in nature.
Jérôme Sueur is an associate professor at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris where he is director of the eco-acoustic laboratory.