Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Used. Hardcover. If you have ever suspected that humanity is currently driving the global clown car, meet the ultimate back-seat driver: a philosophizing, telepathic gorilla named Ishmael. In this brilliantly unconventional Socratic dialogue, Daniel Quinn’s simian sage sits down with an eager pupil to gently dismantle the destructive cultural mythology that we were somehow appointed to conquer the earth. By dividing our species into frantic "Takers" and sustainable "Leavers," this modern classic forces readers to question whether civilization's grand trajectory is actually just a slow-moving evolutionary error. It is a wildly provocative, mind-expanding intellectual adventure that won’t just make you rethink our place in the ecosystem, but will forever change how you read the daily news.