David T. Gilbert is a lover of history and a seasoned life-time traveler with an appreciative eye for diverse world cultures and the values that support them through ritual and community. It is in this that the evidence for our being a compassionate species, designed to look after ourselves, each other, and our planet, is irrefutable. May this be the compass that could yet help us mediate the big questions we face now? He takes delight in exploring fascinating possibilities and questions, mixing what the ifs from our past and blending it all into a story.