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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Ishmael
• Author: Daniel Quinn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780553375404
• ISBN: 0553375407
• ID: 02292352
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 134 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 1995

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