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GIVEAWAY! The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause

March 20, 2012 By Mary 24 Comments

Book Description


Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world’s leading experts in natural sound, and he’s spent his life discovering and recording nature’s rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world’s honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

Krause shares fascinating insight into how deeply animals rely on their aural habitat to survive and the damaging effects of extraneous noise on the delicate balance between predator and prey. But natural soundscapes aren’t vital only to the animal kingdom; Krause explores how the myriad voices and rhythms of the natural world formed a basis from which our own musical expression emerged.

From snapping shrimp, popping viruses, and the songs of humpback whales-whose voices, if unimpeded, could circle the earth in hours-to cracking glaciers, bubbling streams, and the roar of intense storms; from melody-singing birds to the organlike drone of wind blowing over reeds, the sounds Krause has experienced and describes are like no others. And from recording jaguars at night in the Amazon rain forest to encountering mountain gorillas in Africa’s Virunga Mountains, Krause offers an intense and intensely personal narrative of the planet’s deep and connected natural sounds and rhythm.

The Great Animal Orchestra is the story of one man’s pursuit of natural music in its purest form, and an impassioned case for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural resources-the music of the wild.  

About the Author
Dr. Bernie Krause is both a musician and a naturalist. During the 1950s and 60s, he devoted himself to music and replaced Pete Seeger as the guitarist for The Weavers. For over 40 years, Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the soundsof creatures and environments large and small. He has recorded over 15,000 species. He lives in California. 

 Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 19, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316086878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316086875

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Comments

  1. holdenj says

    March 20, 2012 at 11:23 am

    What an interesting way to look at the world of nature! Thanks!
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  2. Kerimichelle says

    March 20, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    Love these giveaways! I tweeted, https://twitter.com/#!/threexdot2…

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  3. Julie W says

    March 21, 2012 at 1:59 am

    Wow! This sounds like such an interesting book! I would love to read it to my son! Thanks so much for the giveaway:)

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  4. 553943c8-3927-11e0-acaf-000bcdcb2996 says

    March 21, 2012 at 3:31 am

    Sounds like an interesting book,

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  5. holdenj says

    March 21, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Daily entry 3/21. Thanks!
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  6. holdenj says

    March 22, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Daily entry 3/22. Thanks!
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  7. 553943c8-3927-11e0-acaf-000bcdcb2996 says

    March 22, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Daily entry 3/22
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  8. holdenj says

    March 23, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    Daily entry 3/23. JHolden955(at)gmail(dot)com

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  9. 553943c8-3927-11e0-acaf-000bcdcb2996 says

    March 23, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    Daily entry 3/23
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  10. holdenj says

    March 26, 2012 at 11:37 am

    Daily entry 3/26. Thanks!
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  11. holdenj says

    March 27, 2012 at 11:31 am

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  12. holdenj says

    March 29, 2012 at 11:24 am

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    March 30, 2012 at 4:27 pm

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    March 31, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Daily entry 3/31. Thanks!
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  15. Carol M says

    March 31, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    Thank you for the giveaway. My grandchildren will love this book!

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  16. Carol M says

    April 1, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Thank you!
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  17. holdenj says

    April 2, 2012 at 11:41 am

    Daily entry 4/2. Thanks!
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  18. Carol M says

    April 2, 2012 at 9:29 pm

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  19. holdenj says

    April 3, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Daily entry 4/3. Thanks!
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  20. Carol M says

    April 3, 2012 at 9:58 pm

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    April 3, 2012 at 10:01 pm

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  22. Carol M says

    April 4, 2012 at 10:45 pm

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  23. Carol M says

    April 6, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Thank you for the giveaway!
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  24. Mary BookHounds Jacobs says

    April 8, 2012 at 2:23 am

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