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 This site exists to aid in the exploration of issues central to the novel Ishmael and the ideas of Daniel Quinn. Here you can learn more about Quinn's ideas and come to a deeper understanding of our culture and why things are the way they are.
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  • Roadmap to Sustainability: Interpreting Daniel Quinn
    This new book by Doug Brown, author of Insatiable Is Not Sustainable, has been added to Daniel's recommended reading list. Check it out at Suggested Readings.
    (added on March 14, 2010)

  • Do not be fooled by a site billing itself as New Tribal Ventures and An Ishmael Community.
    Someone is apparently using the NTV domain and material from the former NTV website without our permission and in ways that we do not condone. Please beware!
    (added on March 5, 2010)

  • Alan Thornhill: A Letter from Washington, D.C.
    Our colleague, friend, and original webmaster for this website is embarking on an exciting new venture with an unprecedented opportunity for service to the Community of Life. We wish him all the best as he takes on this challenge. Read his letter....


    (added on February 14, 2010)

  • Wikipedia "Ishmael" ripoff
    You may be getting a message from Amazon touting a "book" called "Ishmael (novel): Daniel Quinn, Ethics, Sustainability, Socratic dialogue, Mythology, Anthropocentrism, Trilogy, The Story of B, New tribalists" by Frederic P. Miller." We haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds like no bargain, being a 76 page book (selling for $51) that has been culled from Wikipedia files that are free online.
    (added on January 12, 2010)

  • T-Shirts, caps, mugs, and more still available
    The NTV Annex at CafePress is still open--for a short time. You'll find T-shirts, baseball shirts, caps, totes, cards, and a miniature teddy bear--"Ishmael's Cousin," and other fun stuff. Check it out at The Annex.


    (added on December 16, 2009)


"There are a handful of books that are more than literature: they are polished gems of wisdom. Tales of Adam is the latest of them....Short, pithy and ageless...Quinn crafts his narrative with a diamond-cutter's care....Here is wisdom for the ages, for all ages..."--Santa Fe New Mexican

 
Links

  • Pan Earth: a site dedicated to a scientific, holistic approach to world problems (and population in particular).

  • Read Ishmael: a site created by Quinn readers to reach out to other prospective readers.

  • Friends of Ishmael Society: find local groups (and more).

  • IshCon: another reader-created site. It's not active now, but conversations, plus information and photos about the conferences they organized, are archived and available for viewing.

  • IshThink: an active reader-created discussion site. It's main purpose--to give people a forum to explore feelings and thoughts engendered by reading Quinn books.


  The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will.

We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight.

Providence

 

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