Penguin presents the audiobook model of Silence by Erling Kagge, read by Atli Gunnarsson.

Behind a cacophony of traffic sound, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion – silence – is based on wait. But what is really silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important today than ever?

Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent fifty times walking solo in Antarctica having a broken radio. With this meditative, wonderful and surprisingly effective reserve, he explores the energy of silence and the importance of shutting out the world. Whether you’re in deep wilderness, going for a shower or for the dance floor, you can encounter perfect stillness in the event that you know where you can appear. And from it develops self-knowledge, gratitude, question and much more.

Take a deep breath, and prepare to submerge yourself alone. Your very own South Pole is out there, somewhere.