ABOOK OF NOISES
by Caspar Henderson
(University of Chicago Press/Granta, $39.99)
“It is thought elephants can feel rain thrumming on the ground as much as 240km away.
Birds do it, especially in spring, bees do it, more or less incessantly, whales do it, sometimes over vast distances, and humans do it, too, some more melodiously than others.
In fact, read this book and you’ll come away with the impression that there isn’t much – animate or otherwise – that doesn’t do it. Make noise, that is. Or sound, if you prefer – Caspar Henderson uses the two terms
