Audiobooks *Non-fiction The City of Din
The City of Din

The City of Din

by Dan MCKENZIE ( - )

A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us physically, mentally, and socially in cities, on railways, at home, in workplaces, and on battlefields of war. The book concludes with some strong suggestions for protecting ourselves from noise as well as for lessening noise altogether. - Summary by Amelia Chesley


"church bells, calling the faithful to worship"

"Civilisation is noise."

"in a world of reduced sound"

"noise and its evils"

"noises of modern war"

Preface: "in the hope of rendering the world we live in quieter"

"sensibility to noise varies very much"

"the July night is thund'rous"

"the modern malady of Din"

"the noise of railway trains"

"the world of Nature is not noisy"