Murmurs of Earth

The Voyager Interstellar Record

By: Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Jon Lomberg, Linda Salzman Sagan, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris

Narrated by: Timothy Ferris, Ann Druyan, Nick Sagan, F. D. Drake, Jon Lomberg

In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©1977 Carl Sagan (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

What a cool team of humans!

More of an interesting take on art history then a book of astronomy. Their passion for humanity and exploration really comes through.

Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan, stop riding on the coattails of Carl Sagan. Mr. Sagan had a wonderful voice. Your voice is coarse and crackly. Unlistenable. Stick to your strenghts: writing. You're scaring away potential listeners to buy the book instead.

Disappointed

very li/le REAL science, without being disrespectful to those involved, I found their chattering musings engaging, directed at a middle school level. science was good at any level,