SOUNDS WILD AND BROKEN (PB)

In this book, David George Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth's history. In mammoth ivory flutes from Palaeolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, 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. This erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, less beautiful.