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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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Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Ishmael
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Daniel Quinn
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 0553561669
- ISBN13
- 9780553561661
- Series
- Ishmael
- Tags
- Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophical Topics, Spirituality, Classics, New Age & Spirituality, Environmental Themes, Adapted for Film, Novellas
- First published
- 1992
- Original title
- Ishmael
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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?