Ishmael: [View All]

[H2O Man]

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn

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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?PID=26056&cgi=biblio&show=TRADE%20PAPER:NEW:0553375407:15.95

Powells.com Staff Pick
For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about everything. Ishmael is a teacher, unlike any you have ever met, with a final mission — to teach man about fixing the ills of the modern world before it's too late. This book is a must read, and a wonderful eye-opener.
Recommended by Linda, Powells.com

Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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?



Note: I'm not sure why some of the post had lines in it when I first put this up. Anyhow, I have wondered if this might be the gunman's "The Catcher in the Rye," based upon his negative experience in his creative writing class? It was a curious book, and since reading what he wrote on his arm, I wondered about this.