Daniel Quinn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago. He worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, Ishmael. In 1991, this book was chosen from among some 2,500 international entrants in the Turner Tomorrow competition to win the half-million dollar prize for a novel offering “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” It has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty languages, and has been used in high schools and colleges worldwide in courses as varied as philosophy, geography, ecology, archaeology, history, biology, zoology, anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. Subsequent works include Providence, The Story of B, My Ishmael: A Sequel, Beyond Civilization, After Dachau, The Holy, and most recently At Woomeroo, a collection of short stories. He currently lives with his wife in Houston.
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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 to 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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This book is what I got from my first year seminar in College. Surprisingly lots of terms we discussed in class can be greatly applied in this book. Get rid of traditional narrative, the book reversed the world, extracting people out of the human world by ...
評分 評分This book is what I got from my first year seminar in College. Surprisingly lots of terms we discussed in class can be greatly applied in this book. Get rid of traditional narrative, the book reversed the world, extracting people out of the human world by ...
評分This book is what I got from my first year seminar in College. Surprisingly lots of terms we discussed in class can be greatly applied in this book. Get rid of traditional narrative, the book reversed the world, extracting people out of the human world by ...
圖書標籤: 社會 英文原版 外國文學 哲學 社會,曆史,哲學 小說 生態 自然
2011年看到的第一本好書~Get out of the prison~take what you need~
評分2011年看到的第一本好書~Get out of the prison~take what you need~
評分Philosophical discussion packed in an annoying Socrates Q&A form. Lack of evidence with invalid assumptions. But it does gives an alternative perspective of thinking about the human race.
評分這是一本一下子就讓我鑽進故事裏齣不來瞭的好書。
評分refreshing and radical
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