Ishmael, an Adventure of the Mind & Spirit

Novel by Daniel Quinn

Blurb

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT

The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. “You are the teacher?” he asks incredulously. “I am the teacher,” the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time to save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man’s destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him—one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?

First Published

1992

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Nicole.lever

Quinn can revolutionize your thinking with this book if you let him. He can at least give some juicy ideas to chew on. He delivers all his information in extremely well executed prose so Ishmael is an easy read despite it being a philosophic treatise. Excellent.

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