Philip Garland is a wealthy animal merchant who specializes in monkeys and apes. However, he often trains his animals cruelly by flogging them, and even the narrator thinks he's excessive. The apes repay Philip for his harsh treatment of them many times over throughout the course of the book.
With apes giving speeches, this book may have been the inspiration for the "Planet of the Apes" movies.
Harry Prentice is a pseudonym for James Otis Laughably, this title is available at Aamazon for ten dollars.
