A Book of Noises - Notes on the Auraculous

A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

About the author

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 and A Book of Noises in October 2023. He lives in Oxford.

Summary

A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

Product details

• Authors: Caspar Henderson, Henderson Caspar
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9781783787067
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-706-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 475 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, popular science, Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Nature and the natural world: general interest, The Earth: Natural History General, Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)