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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Bantam (Jul 1, 1995)
Paperback – 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0553375407
ISBN-13: 9780553375404

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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 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?

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May 15, 2008

This book was an absolute pleasure to read, cover to cover. “From now on I will divide the books I have read into two categories - the ones I read before Ishmael and those read after. “

It took only five pages to completely capture my interest and mind at the same time. Although it is a very rare occasion for me to read a novel, this book is simply more then just an entertaining story. It brings to focus a lot of questions that one should be asking every single hour. How do things come to be this way? How did man become man? Who has knowledge?

Go, Read it - now!

"Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done--almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world--or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

— Danel Quinn; Ishmael" (read less)

This book was an absolute pleasure to read, cover to cover. “From now on I will divide the books I have read into two categories - the ones I read before Ishmael and those read after. “

It took only five pages to completely capture my interest and mind at the same time. Although it is a very rare occasion for me to read a novel, this book is simply more then just an entertaining story. It brings to focus a lot of questions that one should be asking every single hour. How do things come to be this way? How did man become man? Who has knowledge?

Go, Read it - now!

"Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done--almost. He hasn't quite made ... (read more)

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