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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: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 bough… (más)
aneurysm1985: Both are about similar social-ecological issues. And both are the result of the authors (Quinn and Jacobs) enlightening readers about non-fiction topics through the use of fictional characters and Platonic dialogue. Both novels are written with the overarching purpose of educating their readers about unfamiliar topics.… (más)
Un maestro y su alumno discuten sobre el estado del mundo. ¿Cómo podría el hombre convertir el paraíso en un infierno? Ismael, el maestro, tiene una historia sorprendentemente diferente que contar sobre la evolución. Se remonta a ese día bíblico cuando el hombre se convirtió en la corona de la creación en un conflicto fratricida asesino.
The point remains that we are killing the Earth along with ourselves and it is nearly too late to check out fate. This is reason enough for reading Ishmael.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It wasn't till I got Ishmael's poster to the framing shop that I discovered there were messages on both sides. I had it framed so that both can be seen. The message on one side is the one Ishmael displayed on the wall of his den: WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR GORILLA? The message on the other side reads: WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: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 bough
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Ismael, el maestro, tiene una historia sorprendentemente diferente que contar sobre la evolución. Se remonta a ese día bíblico cuando el hombre se convirtió en la corona de la creación en un conflicto fratricida asesino.