“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. We want to change our lives.” - The Washington Post we’re in grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. Author, educator, and artist Daniel Quinn is best known for his novel, 'Ishmael,' winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek 'creative and positive solutions to global problems. “Before we’re halfway through this slim book. Calling on Ishmael: Directed by Eric Bricker. “As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.” - The Austin Chronicle 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?Įxplore Daniel Quinn’s spiritual Ishmael trilogy, available on audio: 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. 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 “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. One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following.

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