--- product_id: 64891951 title: "Silence: In the Age of Noise Hardcover – November 21, 2017" brand: "erling kagge" price: "¥11203" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/64891951-silence-in-the-age-of-noise-hardcover-november-21-2017 store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Silence: In the Age of Noise Hardcover – November 21, 2017 **Brand:** erling kagge **Price:** ¥11203 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Silence: In the Age of Noise Hardcover – November 21, 2017 by erling kagge - **How much does it cost?** ¥11203 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/64891951-silence-in-the-age-of-noise-hardcover-november-21-2017) ## Best For - erling kagge enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted erling kagge brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Silence: In the Age of Noise Hardcover – November 21, 2017 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31p4MKV8ZuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finding silence in a loud world - the search within *by G***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2017* Erling Kagge may be the ultimate challenge-seeker. According to the book’s jacket, Kagge is the first man to have completed the Three Poles Challenge on foot—the North Pole, the South Pole, and the summit of Mount Everest. Wow! I would submit that his greatest challenge however, was the decision to write a book about silence.He obviously experienced a lot of silence when he trekked across Antarctica alone for 50 days. But this isn’t a book about the exploration of remote places. This is a book about the silence within, the kind of silence that is found on a crowded subway or a barren mountaintop. In fact, according to Kagge, you have to find it on the crowded subway. That is life. And that is when you need it most.I completely agree. I lived in China for nine years. Having grown up in a small town in rural America and lived most of my adult life in a house that sat a few thousand meters from its nearest neighbor, I moved to Beijing, a city of 22 million, where personal space is, by necessity, simply non-existent. If you can’t get used to the idea of your face being mere inches away from the face of the stranger standing next to you on a crowded subway, you won’t survive.Looking back, however, learning to live without personal space was more a process of personal liberation than an accommodation to my new reality. Never in my sixty-three years have I learned more about myself or become more comfortable in my own skin.The book is a chronicle of philosophy on the topic of silence. But rather than just summarizing that discussion, Kagge applies it to everything from exploring the underground world of New York City to the appreciation of art and music.Which is pretty bold, when you think about it. He could sell a lot of books merely sharing some of his unusual and exotic tales of adventure. But he doesn’t do that here. He is wagering this book on his ability to share himself at the most intimate level.And I think he is successful. This is a very good book by a very intriguing individual. Silence, as Kagge points out, is all about listening-to self, the people you love, and the world around you. That’s where you find joy and purpose. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Words about silence: possible? *by P***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2017* This book begins for me at chapter two. Continues through chapter four and then picks up again in a couple of times later. Except for these rewarding places, it's rarely about silence. It's about quietness, or breaks in noise, or pauses, or an awe in some experience. This is a remarkable man. To walk alone to the south pole, and reach the north pole too and the top of Everest, and to walk across the under of New York as well as on top of it presents a rich and driving and hungry spirit that wants to get it all, and in his exploration has been blessed with subtle and spiritually infinite experiences.In this book, aside from those chapters that describe his experiences, in which you can imagine you sense what he experienced as silence, there are random visits with philosophers and artists and others who've left references to silence. He says in the beginning that he decided to write a book about silence. There is some writing like that here but much of it comes as an intellectual effort more than the touch of serenity a book with this title appears to offer. As if this is carried by the decision to write a book as much as by what was in him needing to get out. Still, those chapters, and I would add numbers 17 and 19, are well worth reading.Obviously, these remarks are not a book review, only one person's experience with a worthwhile effort by an extraordinary man. Perhaps any effort such as this is limited. As he said, he's never experienced absolute silence. Any creature with ears cannot. But the deep need for peace draws us to the idea of, the wish for tranquility. Which can be visited. Perhaps stillness is closer to what can be tasted.It's the experiencing of it that best carries it, not the literary or philosophical references on the subject. They come as filler. For me, A Book Of Silence, by Sara Maitland was the real book about silence. And when she departs from her thrilling transfiguring experiences on the moor into literature, she too, makes too long a book. But I highly recommend her work for anyone yearning for stillness.I think shorter books on this could leave us with more of silence. "Only simple and quiet words will ripen of themselves." From the Tau, a very short book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shhh! Be quiet and purchase this book! *by P***5 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2018* We live in a busy world. It's loud, it's chaotic, and it's a non-stop race in one of a million different ways. Everything is connected--and while that proves convenient at times, other times that connectivity thanks to technology creates a huge gap in our lives. I'm a hiker--and I adore the opportunities to go on remote hikes and not encounter other people... as a people person that may seem odd, but it was my way to "get away" and really clear my head. Ironically, I used to hike with any of a number of playlists going, letting the music motivate me. I haven't listened to music on a hike in years.Around the time I gave up on music during hikes and walks, I was turned onto minimalism. While minimalism and silence may not go hand-in-hand, they are both ideas and concepts that have come on with a maturity and better understanding of what is important in the world. I find myself now teaching my daughters about the importance of little things, and how big they can seem and how much we can learn. Looking at two blades of grass on the surface sounds boring, but when you get down to the details it is fascinating. Silence is the same.This book was recommended by my father who is a wise 68. He is one of the wisest people I know--so I bought the book and read it last week. It's a potentially quick read, but that's dangerous. A book like this needs to be taken slowly and digested. Philosophical at it's core, you need to allow yourself the time to really soak up what Kagge is saying... if you can do that, you'll be better for it. 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