Daniel Quinn

This 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....

From the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning best seller Ishmael and its sequel, My Ishmael, comes a powerful novel with one of the most profound spiritual testaments of our time....

When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world”, he does not expect a child to answer him. But 12-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael’s reluctance to teach someone so young and convinces him to take her on as his next student....

They knew us before we began to walk upright. Shamans called them guardians, mythmakers called them tricksters, pagans called them gods, churchmen called them demons, folklorists called them shape-shifters....

In If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways, Quinn elucidates for listeners the methods behind his own thought processes....

Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed or invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi dominance....

One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author....