A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of Noise and silence, and the growing war between them.
Traveling across the country and meeting and Listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.".
In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that Noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe.
Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day.
A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of Noise and silence, and the growing war between them
