Ishmael approves of the narrator's rules and asks what they promote. He says the three basic rules are 1) do not exterminate your competition for food 2) do not destroy your competitors' food supply in order to grow your own and 3) do not deny access to food to others. He returns to Ishmael on the fifth day with his findings. “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.It takes the narrator four days to figure out the basic laws of life. 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. “Before we’re halfway through this slim book. “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: 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. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author, as well as an excerpt from My Ishmael.

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following among readers and critics alike.

Ishmael by daniel quinn