戴维•哈斯凯尔：听起来狂野而破碎（《看不见的森林》作者新作） Sounds Wild and Broken

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 448 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571362097

Published:20 Apr 2023

Weight:354g

Dimensions:197 x 128 x 30 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一次令人敬畏的探索，探讨了地球的声音，以及人类音乐、语言和噪音的快乐和威胁。

“一部交响乐，充满了生命的音乐......引人入胜，令人心碎，而且写得很精彩。”——《第六次灭绝》的作者伊丽莎白·科尔伯特（ELIZABETH KOLBERT）。

《听起来狂野而破碎》肯定了哈斯克尔是地球的桂冠，他精细的科学观察因其对他希望拯救的野生环境的深爱而变得更加有力。

纽约时报

“精彩......提醒我们，我们大多数人所处的狭窄的听觉频谱，以及人类生活的方式，阻挡了地球的伟大、丰富的交响乐。”——守望者

我们生活在一个充满歌曲、音乐和语言的星球上。大卫·乔治·哈斯克尔探讨了这些奇迹是如何产生的。在闪烁着昆虫声音的雨林中，在蛙鸣声中跳动的沼泽中，我们了解到进化的创造能力。从落基山脉和巴黎街头的鸟类身上，我们发现动物是如何学习它们的歌曲并适应新的环境的。在海浪之下，我们听到了我们与鳄虾、蟾蜍和鲸鱼等不同生物的亲缘关系。在不同大洲的动物令人吃惊的不同的声音氛围中，我们体验到板块构造的遗产、动物和它们在世界范围内的运动的深刻历史，以及审美进化的怪异之处。

从动物歌曲的起源开始，穿越地球历史的整个弧线，哈斯克尔照亮并赞美了我们世界各种声音的出现。在旧石器时代洞穴中的猛犸象牙长笛、现代音乐厅中的小提琴和耳塞中的电子音乐中，我们了解到，人类的音乐和语言属于这个生态和进化的故事中。然而，我们也是破坏者，现在压制或扼杀了许多活着的地球的声音。哈斯克尔把我们带到受威胁的森林、充满噪音的海洋和喧闹的城市街道，表明声音危机不仅仅是感官装饰品的损失。声音是一种生成的力量，因此对声音多样性的抹杀使世界失去了创造性，失去了美丽。

《听起来狂野而破碎》是一个倾听、好奇和行动的邀请。

An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise.

'A symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating, heartbreaking, and beautifully written.'

ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of The Sixth Extinction

'Sounds Wild and Broken affirms Haskell as a laureate for the earth, his finely tuned scientific observations made more potent by his deep love for the wild he hopes to save.'

NEW YORK TIMES

'Wonderful . . . a reminder that the narrow aural spectrum on which most of us operate, and the ways in which human life is led, blocks out the planet's great, orchestral richness.'

GUARDIAN

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David George Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rainforests shimmering with insect sounds and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution's creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animals and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.

Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth's history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic 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. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets to show 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, less beautiful.

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

'Absolutely fascinating.'

MARIELLA FROSTRUP, TIMES RADIO

'Enlightening and sobering.'

JINI REDDY, METRO

作者简介

戴维•哈斯凯尔的研究与教学工作主要涉及生物进化和动物保护，尤其是对栖息于森林里的鸟类和无脊椎动物的保护。除了发表许多科研文章外，他还发表了数篇关于科学与自然的随笔和诗歌。哈斯凯尔因其创造性地将科学探索、冥想练习和社区行动结合起来而获得了全国关注。2009年，卡耐基基金会、凯斯基金会将他命名为田纳西年度教授，该奖项只授予获得国家荣誉或对大学教育做出突出贡献的大学教授。“牛津美国”将他列入2011年美国南部具创意的老师。他现在是南方大学的生物教授，生物学系主任，美国南部大学联盟环保研究员。

David Haskell is the author of The Forest Unseen (2012), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Songs of Trees (2017), which won the John Burroughs Medal. His work integrates scientific, literary, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow.