In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanitys origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves? Explore Daniel Quinns spiritual Ishmael trilogy: ISHMAEL - MY ISHMAEL - THE STORY OF B Praise for Ishmael As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.-The Austin Chronicle Before were halfway through this slim book. It is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorilla-a journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankinds place in it. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel.

It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.-The New York Times Book Review Teacher Seeks Pupil. A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. Book Synopsis One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following.

When a man in search of truth answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious students, he finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a gorilla named Ishmael. About the Book Now available in paperback for the first time, Ishmael is the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award-a prize for fiction that offers solutions to global problems.

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