George Michelsen Foy
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English
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Have our noise-soaked lives driven us mad? And is absolute silence an impossible goal-or the one thing that can save us? A lively tale of one man's quest to find the grail of total quiet.---
" I don't know at what point noise became intolerable for me," George Michelsen Foy writes as he recalls standing on a subway platform in Manhattan, hands clamped firmly over his ears, face contorted in pain. But only then does Foy realize how overwhelmed he...
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English
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Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful prose, Finding North starts with a quest by the author to understand this most basic of human skills--and why it's in mortal peril.
In 1844, Foy's great-great grandfather,...