Book of Noises

Regular price €17.50
A01=Caspar Henderson
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
astronomy
Author_Caspar Henderson
automatic-update
best books on sound
brief history
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=PDZ
Category=PHDS
Category=PHVB
Category=WN
Category=WNW
compendium
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
Language_English
merlin sheldrake
miscellany
other minds
otherlands
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
robert macfarlane
softlaunch
sounds in nature
ultrasound
whale song

Product details

  • ISBN 9781783787074
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

Sound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe. A Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, and contains quiet pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, to the meditative resonance of a temple bell and the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things auricular.
CASPAR HENDERSON has been a journalist and an editor: a contributor to BBC Radio 4, Financial Times, Guardian, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy. His debut, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Granta, 2012), won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. A New Map of Wonders (Granta) was published in 2017. A Book of Noises will be published by Granta in October 2023. He lives in Oxford.