Textbook Discounter: Humanities: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
	Author: Daniel Quinn Publisher: Bantam Category: Book List Price: ~~$18.00~~ Buy Used: $3.00 You Save: $15.00 (83%) New (76) Used (136) Collectible (10) from $3.00 Rating: 864 reviews Sales Rank: 446 Media: Paperback Pages: 272 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 ISBN: 0553375407 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780553375404 ASIN: 0553375407 Publication Date: July 1, 1995 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a manin search for truth. He answers an ad in a localnewspaper from a teacher looking for seriouspupils, only to find himself alone in an abandonedoffice with a full-grown gorilla who is nibblingdelicately on a slender branch. "You are theteacher?" he asks incredulously. "I amthe teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael isa creature of immense wisdom and he has a storyto tell, one that no other human being has everheard. It is a story that extends backward andforward over the lifespan of the earth from the birthof time to a future there is still time save.Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make thelesson easy; he demands the final illumination tocome from within ourselves. Is it man's destinyto rule the world? Or is it a higher destinypossible for him-- one more wonderful than he has everimagined?