Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

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David George Haskell

Sounds Wild and Broken

Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell

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Black Inc
04 March 2022

Mathematics & Sciences; The environment

The Earth's sounds are wonderfully diverse, complex and beautiful - but they are under threat.

A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces

We live on a planet alive with song, music and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rainforests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls, we learn about evolution's creative powers. From the Rocky Mountains to the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to underwater beings.

Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. We learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth.

Haskell shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just and beautiful.

Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong and act.

'Sounds Wild and Broken is a symphony, filled with the music of life. It is fascinating, heartbreaking, and beautifully written.' -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

Longlisted, 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist, 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

By: David George Haskell
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 578g
ISBN: 9781760642587
ISBN 10: 1760642584
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 04 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of the multi-award-winning books The Forest Unseen (2012) and The Songs of Trees (2020), which won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. Along with his scholarly research, Haskell has also published essays, op-eds and poetry.