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A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.. . The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. In A Book of Noises, Henderson invites readers to use their ears a little better - to tune in to the world in all its surprising noisiness.. . Describing sounds from around the natural and human world, the forty-eight essays that make up A Book of Noises are a celebration of all things "auraculous." Henderson calls on his characteristic curiosity to explore sounds related to humans (anthropophony) , other life (biophony) , the planet (geophony) , and space (cosmophony) .