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One Square Inch of Silence
One Square Inch of Silence
One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World  
By Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Prologue Sounds of Silence

1 Silent Thunder
2 The Quiet Path
3 Hitting the Road
4 Urban Wilderness
5 Endangered Quiet Beauty
6 The Earth Exposed
7 The Rocky Road to Quietude
8 NatureÕs Symphony in Decline

Interlude

9 Toxic Noise
10 Seeking MuirÕs Music
11 Hundred-Mile Walk to Washington
12 Washington, D.C.

Epilogue Echoes

Appendix A Correspondence with James Fallows
Appendix B Indianapolis Noise Profiles
Appendix C Kempthorne Letter
Appendix D FAA Map of the Continental United States
Appendix E Sonic EKG of America
Appendix F Your Personal Quest for Quiet: A MiniÐUserÕs Manual

Acknowledgments
Index