GIVEAWAY! The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause

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 WANT TO WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK?  Contest is open to anyone over 13 years old with a US or Canadian mailing address (sorry, no PO Boxes) Contest ends on 4.6.12 Winner will be chosen by Random.org on 4.7.12 Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is sponsored by Little Brown and THREE copies are available. Complete the below form  Follow Me Extra Entries +1 Follow me on Twitter HERE  +1 Like BookHounds on Facebook HERE  +1 Like Win a Book on Facebook HERE +1 Be my friend on Goodreads HERE +1 for social networking this giveaway and leave me a link (blog, twitter, facebook, etc) once daily +1 Leave a comment -- you can do this daily, just leave me an email  or twitter address!