The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

A beautifully lyrical memoir and examination of natural music that will leave you hearing—and seeing—nature as never before.

"A passionate amalgam of science and autobiography." —New York Times Book Review

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 ...