TEACHER SEEKS PUPIL.
Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime...

So begins Ishmael, an utterly unique and captivating novel that has earned a large and passionate following among readers and critics alike - one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published.

This book is going out as an International BookRay

Here is the mailing order (so far)

1) shnedwards in UK
2) mimu in UK <---book is here now soon to be on it's way
3) tania-in-nc North Carolina, USA
4) ElaineOfAstolat in Minnesota
5) Scrawler in US or Poland (depending on when the Ray gets to this point)
6) c-a-m in Australia

It's here! Have been looking for this book for ages, so many thanks to KarenBC for sending it to me. Passed straight to my husband, now registered on BXing as RobbieRabble.

Very inspiring book and recommended to all who are open to looking at the world in a different way.
Many thanks to KarenBC for sending the book. It is hard to get hold of

Sent to mimu. Enjoy!

Arrived this morning! Looking forward to reading it.

Thanks to KarenBC, schnedwards and Robbie-Rabble for sending this my way. I have to admit (and I hesitate to) that I'm not going to finish reading this one. I do like it, and I think it's a clever trick to pull off, presenting your 'message' in fictional form, particularly in the words of a gorilla, but I'm getting a bit 'yeah, yeah, I get your point'. There's alot that no-one could disagree with, much of it very well put, but perhaps we're passed the time when it could sound surprising to anyone. The other reason I'm going to stop where I am is that the kind of radical change the book seems to advocate...well, it's not happened and there's very little sign that it's going to. Let's be honest, fellow readers of this book, what have you done today to change global food production methods?

The whole 'Takers' and 'Leavers' concept is a useful one, I think, in that it's good to be reminded that there is very little about the way we live in and think about the world that *has* to be as it is, and we do have an awful tendency to tell ourselves stories to the effect that we just can't help it. Sigh. I'm getting depressed now, on top of the cynicism. There's also a fair amount that I quite strongly disagreed with. For example, his pronouncements on famine made me wince. I'm not entirely sure that -given factors such as corruption, war, unfair distribution of wealth, etc- contraception is quite so obvious an answer.

I'll stop grumbling now and PM the next person in line for the book.

This book arrived in the post today. Thanks for sharing! Will be read after my current title: Mixed Doubles by Jill Mansell, c. 1998