Daniel Quinn is the award-winning author of Ishmael, The Story of B, and My Ishmael. His Web site address is www.ishmael.org.
He lives in Houston, Texas.
Review
"Beyond Civilization is the most solid, real, practical, and you-can-really-do-it book you'll ever find
on how to save the world. Daniel Quinn has again proven he is one of our century's greatest and most insightful
thinkers. The re-tribalization of the world: what an extraordinary possibility!"
-- Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
"As always with Quinn, his argument is crystalline and reads like a thriller. He shows us that getting 'beyond'
the mess of civilization doesn't mean changing human nature or setting off a revolution. We need only breathe new
life into an ancient human strategy for survival. Quinn's plan is inspiring and devilishly clever."
-- John Briggs, author of Seven Life Lessons of Chaos
Submitted by the Publisher, June, 2001
Summary
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a
bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced
that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what.
Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining
ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like
circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages
diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New
Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the
freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.
