Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Abridged) Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Abridged)

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Abridged‪)‬

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    • $7.99

Publisher Description

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
 
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.”—The New York Times Book Review

Teacher Seeks Pupil.
Must have an earnest desire to save the world.
Apply in person.

It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime.

So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. 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 humankind’s place in it.
 
In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity’s 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 Quinn’s 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 we’re halfway through this slim book . . . we’re in [Daniel Quinn’s] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives.”The Washington Post

“Arthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaur’s Prayer: ‘Lord, a little more time!’ Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time.”Los Angeles Times

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
AH
Anthony Heald
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
02:54
hr min
RELEASED
2000
July 4
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
163.7
MB

Customer Reviews

maisy2626 ,

An Important Perspective

This book is awesome. I think everyone should read it just as a practice of empathy, and taking a perspective very different from what many of us know.

It’s worth buying into the telepathic monkey, I promise.

CVConoly ,

Changed my outlook on life

This book put into words what I had been feeling for a couple years! Life altering, really.

Hughy boy ,

Well, that changed everything

Do yourself a favor and listen/read this book. It’ll be good for everyone.

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