Whispering gallery to the walls, an effect that was discovered in the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral in London. The extent to which the sound travels at St Paul's can also be judged by clapping in the gallery, which produces four echoes. Other historical examples are the Gol Gumbaz mausoleum in Bijapur and the Echo Wall of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. A hemispherical enclosure will also guide whispering gallery waves. The waves carry the words so that others will be able to hear them from the opposite side of the gallery. The gallery may also be in the form
The Whispering Land owl. The book ends as he leaves his friends and Argentina with his collection of animals to return to the Channel Islands via ship. Will Cohu of "The Telegraph" said that while "The Whispering Land" wasn't Durrell's "most entertaining book", it contained "the reassuring message that life was a kind of theatre that could be played for its comedy". The "Australia Women's Weekly" praised Durrell, saying he had "the ability to deal as sympathetically and amusingly with humans as with animals". The Whispering Land The Whispering Land is an autobiographical account of the 8 months Gerald Durrell spent travelling in