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Son of the Island
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Golden Archive Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Son of the Island is a philosophical tale of solitude, awakening, and the search for truth.
Born into mystery and raised apart from human society, a child opens his eyes upon an island where no teacher speaks, no scripture is read, and no city has shaped the mind. Through hunger, grief, wonder, experiment, and contemplation, he begins to read the world itself: the bodies of animals, the order of the heavens, the hidden causes of life, and the signs of the Creator written into nature.
Ibn Tufayl's classic tale, known for centuries as Hayy ibn Yaqzan, stands at the crossroads of philosophy, mysticism, natural inquiry, and sacred imagination. It is at once an adventure of the mind and a profound meditation on what a human being may discover alone, before language, tradition, and society intervene.
This edition presents the work in modern literary English while preserving the grave, contemplative force of the original: its ancient cosmology, theological reasoning, natural philosophy, and visionary sense of the world. Written for readers of philosophy, classic literature, spiritual allegory, and mythic intellectual fiction, Son of the Island invites the reader into one of the great thought experiments of world literature.
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