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Sounds and sweet airs that give delight

Singing sands, the dawn chorus and the crackle of the Northern Lights are among the many natural wonders explored in Caspar Henderson’s paean to the act of listening

A robin in full song in springtime. [Getty Images]

  • A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

    Caspar Henderson

    Granta Books, pp. 368, £16

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