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

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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?
 
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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… (meer)