Zero Decibels
The Quest for Absolute Silence
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2010
208 pages
978-1-4391-0104-9 (ISBN)
Description
Zero Decibels is a passionate exploration of our need for true silence in an age of noise.
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George Michelsen Foy is the author of Run the Storm, Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human and Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence, as well as twelve critically acclaimed novels. He was a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Harper's, The New York Times, and Men's Journal, among others. A former officer on British coastal freighters, he teaches creative writing at NYU, holds a US Coast Guard coastal captain's license, and divides his time between Cape Cod and New York.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- contents
- chapter one the Broadway train
- chapter two quest for total sound
- chapter three city noise, urban quiet
- chapter four a brief history of silence
- chapter five quest for silence: the country
- chapter six art of silence, silence in art
- chapter seven "the quietest place in the universe": scientific silence
- chapter eight can we hear "nothing"? silence and physiology
- chapter nine the silence of the sea: how hearing evolved
- chapter ten why Apaches don't talk
- chapter eleven the silence of the disappeared
- chapter twelve the death of quiet: coping with overload
- chapter thirteen the quietest place on earth
- chapter fourteen the monks of Cîteaux: silence as absolute
- chapter fifteen tinnitus!
- chapter sixteen the farmhouse
- acknowledgments
- notes
- index
