The Walking Tree of the Amazon Rainforest

Frimpong Obeng Yaw

Description

This is a fantasy story about the Amazon rainforest and its deforestation.
The story tells how trees, animals and all the other creatures of the jungle stood up to fight and defend their kingdom from the humans and their merciless chainsaws. The mysterious tree king, Shaqkoo; the Walking Tree; and the good monsters--a monkey called Professor Oxford; a frog, Domingos; and a bird, Sanchez--are the warriors who led the jungle uprising against companies to stop deforestation of the Amazonian Kingdom.

Sujets

• Fantasy (canción de Mariah Carey)
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
• Date de parution: 29 mai 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528956192
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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The Walking Tree of the Amazon Rainforest
Yaw Frimpong Obeng
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-05-29
The Walking Tree of the Amazon Rainforest About The Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46
About The Author
Yaw is a Dutch citizen, originally from Ghana, who moved to the Netherlands in the late ’80s. He is married to a Dutch woman and has two children. Yaw has been writing and telling stories as a hobby for a long time. He experienced first-hand the deforestation of the Ghanaian rainforest when he was living there as a child. He can still vividly remember today how logs were chained on timber trucks that went driving down the road at the back of his house to the sawmill.
Dedication
I dedicate this book to the people who have suffered from deforestation.
Copyright Information ©
Yaw Frimpong Obeng (2020)
The right of Yaw Frimpong Obeng to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Acknowledgments
I thank God for giving me the knowledge to write this book. My second thanks goes to my wife, Catherine; my son, Kevin; and my daughter, Stefanie van der Wees, Richard Thrift and Michiel Nooren for all their support, patience and encouragement when I was writing this story. I would also like to thank Kerim Akyuz for cover illustration. Finally, thanks to Austin Macauley publishers for giving me this opportunity and their support during the process.
Preface
This is a science fiction story about the Amazon rainforest and the unseen guardian goodness of the Amazon rainforest called the ‘Walking Tree’. The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest was the root cause of the jungle revolt against the human race. The jungle uprising under the walking tree took place to liberate the kingdom Amazonia from the deadly war of deforestation which was devastating woodland. Shaqkoo, the walking tree, was born the son of Princess Margarita, a mahogany tree, and the grandson of mahogany King José, who reigned as the king of Amazonia. The war of deforestation struck the kingdom of indigenous trees destroying all the creatures of the untamed wild world. King José was killed by a chainsaw; he was taken away as timber by the humans. Shaqkoo, the walking tree, grew up and was crowned as the next king of Amazonia. He fought people to stop deforestation of the largest rainforest empire on earth to protect trees, animals, birds and all other creatures living in his kingdom. He protected his fellow trees and animals from deforestation. This is the magical story of a tree, the mysterious supernatural tree the earth had never seen the likes of before, ‘Shaqkoo, the Lord of the Jungle’.
Chapter 1
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. And the authority of His creation was blessed and given to men. Humans became the custodians and the lords of the earth, but every kingdom on the earth has its lords and kings. The Oceanic Kingdom was ruled by mighty sharks and sea monsters. In the fairy-tale kingdom of the Amazon rainforest, however, there was no supremacy, sovereignty or a king. A war was inevitable as the creatures of Amazon rainforest clashed for kingship. Monkeys, jaguars, sloths, anacondas, anteaters, buffalos, giant otters and other creatures fought among themselves to rule Amazonia. Animals rose as warlords, generals, and commanders and fought the jungle war to become king. For decades, animals were at war. The trees kept silent, but not for long. One day, a giant, bold tree rose. His name was Shaqkoo, and he gave a passionate speech to all the tribes of trees. He proclaimed that a tree must rule the rainforest. He said: “A gigantic tree must be king; a noble tree must sit on the majestic throne of Amazonia. The spirit and soul of the rainforest is within the trees. We created the woodland. An indigenous, traditional, ancient tree therefore must be enthroned as ruler of this kingdom. Every creature must bow and worship a tree king as the lord of the jungle.” Trees were enthusiastic, zealous even, about unshackling the domination of the animals. Nothing can be compared to a mighty tree standing like a castle with its trunk as a fortress, towering to touch the hanging clouds.
It was the beginning of the end of the saga in the woodland to choose their king. In the woodlands, it was survival of the fittest. The savage kingdom with mystery and magic in caves. The epic of the monarchy of the rainforest was unfolding. The immobile trees believed animals were subjects, not the lords or royals of the rainforest. The magnificent and even imperial and noble trees of Amazonia rejected animals as their king. Tribal leaders of trees—mahogany, kapok, palm, rubber, wimba and others—stood for the kingship. The animals were astonished at the bombshell of trees demanding a tree king. The animals sent a message to the trees: “Trees cannot be king due to their immobility. We, the animal kingdom of the rainforest, reject a tree as king.” The spearheads of the trees, Shaqkoo, a mahogany; and Baddestga, a wimba tree, responded to the animal kingdom with a message: “We are born this way; immobility is our nature. We were created to not wander around like other creatures. And you need not walk to be king.”
A war had broken out between trees and animals for the monarchy of the mighty jungle. As night fell and the forest was asleep, animal leaders met in the enchanted, ancient, sorcerer caves where mysterious creatures dwelled. Sloths, monkeys, giant otters, the big snake anaconda, jaguars and anteaters entered the threshold of the wild jungle spirits to dance in trance, to perform the ritual conjuring the spirit of the sorcerer Grotto to assist animals with the kingship. The animals believed victory would be achieved with the assistance of the mysterious caves.
Amazonia is mystifying as nature is wonderful. An unexplained war broke out between animals and trees. Animals under their leaders assaulted trees and beat trees to death. Trees could not walk, but they fought with the powers of the winds that swirled through their branches, to strike animals and kill them. Other creatures such as birds and monkeys could perch on trees but animals didn’t hang out under trees, as it was forbidden, since the jungle was at war.
Incidents of assaults and violence spread throughout the kingdom, resulting in death of both trees and animals. After decades of conflict, the animals were about to lose the war. There was no food to feed the animals, as the trees stopped bearing fruit because of the battle. The trees sent a message to the animals: “No trees, no kingdom.” The animal kingdom held a meeting to cease the war. They agreed that trees were the majesties, the nobles of the land, the landlords and without them, no creature would survive in the kingdom. The jungle had seen the time when animals ran the kingdom, but the trees’ victory over the animals was a moment that would last forever.
The trees celebrated their victory over the animals under their two great leaders, Shaqkoo and Baddestga. The clouds rejoiced and the earth was glad that the mighty trees had won the battle for kingship. The young mahogany Shaqkoo was appointed by the tribe and clans of trees and all creatures of the jungle as their king. And he was inspired by the clouds and the earth to become the first king to rule the Amazonia kingdom. The clouds, rain, wind and sun descended and anointed him as the first king of the Amazon rainforest. During the anointment, he was blessed with the power and spirit to rule. Shaqkoo was a noble, charismatic tree with vision, love and dedication to protect all creatures of his kingdom.
Chapter 2
Peace and sanity returned to Amazonia kingdom after the war. The jungle rejoiced under its new leader, a tree king. A giant, handsome, noble mahogany ruled the woodland. His inauguration ceremony was a festival that lasted for many days. Tree King Shaqkoo was respected and praised. Creatures bowed with adoration, crying: “Long live the king!” As billions of creatures sung Shaqkoo’s praises, hatred entered the heart of his friend, Baddestga. He was filled with jealously and anger as he witnessed Shaqkoo sitting on the throne of the mighty kingdom with all the creatures bowing before him. They had been friends who fought the animals together, but now Baddestga became enshrouded in bitter envy of the king.
One day, Baddestga was filled with evil spirits and converted itself into a spook tree—something that had never lived on ear