Erling Kagge: Silence (2017)
143 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2017
"In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book, an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experience and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us why silence is essential to our sanity and happiness--and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude."--Jacket.
A wonderful, brief and contemplative book about the importance of silence. Kagge brings in music, art, philosophy and his own experience as an explorer in 33 examples of how to find silence (and why it's hard to find). It is all packaged together in a gorgeous book with full colour artistic photos from the writer, artists and NASA, and is thoughtful and positive.
