Nature's Warriors Book #2: Wild Journey & Emerald Island

By Tara Smith

n Nature's Warriors Book 1, the chickens have been daringly rescued from the despicable Growley farm by an amazing group of animals and plants, assisted by the supernatural Artetrim.

Now in Book 2, the chickens must be moved to safety so that they are forever out of the clutches of Man.

Magnificent Hidden Worlds In An Unforgettable Adventure

Towards this, a plan unfolds that will take the chickens and their friends through magnificent underground worlds deep in the forest. Then they will travel on the backs of a bewildering array of sea animals across a huge ocean in order to get them to the safety of the heavenly Emerald Island.

But all does not go well. A betrayal, a vicious fight, a battle deep in the heart of the ocean - all this will be sure to send a chill down the reader’s spine.

But things cannot go very wrong when all of Nature and her forces are with the little creatures. A miraculous rescue, with prehistoric animals and death-defying experiences bring the chickens back on the backs of their savior friends - the whales and dolphins and sharks, and gators.

For lovers of Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Eowyn Ivey, Helen Oyeyemi, Amy Tan, aren Tei Yamashita, Virginia Woolf, Daniel Wallace, Luis Alberto Urrea, Amos Tutola, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Orhan Pamuk, Erick Setiawan, Karen Russell, Salman Rushdie, Juan Rulfo, Tomas Rivera, Ishmael Reed, Loida Maritza Pérez, Milorad Pavić, Erin Morgenstern, Téa Obreht, Flann O’Brien, Ben Okri, Ruth Ozeki, Vladimir Nabokov, Haruki Murakami, Nicole Krauss, Kelly Link, Meg Medina, Anna Marie McLemore, Anna Marie McLemore, Yann Martel, Ibrahim al-Koni, Kojo Laing, Cristina Garcia, Nikolai Gogol, Gunter Grass, Lauren Groff, Yaa Gyasi, fantasy, hemingway, magical realism, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, Ron Arias, Marcel Ayme, Aimee Bender, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Arundhati Roy, Alejo Carpentier, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Toni Morrison, Syl Cheney-Coker, Otar Chiladze, Julio Cortázar, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anthony Doerr, Mariana Enríquez, Louise Erdrich, Laura Esquivel, Thoreau, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mark Helprin, Mohsin Hamid, Joanne Harris, Alice Hoffman, Zora Neale Hurston, Ryhaan Shah, Zadie Smith, Tiphanie Yanique.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tara Smith
• Release date: Aug 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463842867

Tara Smith

I am an American writer of fantasy speculative fiction and magical realism books. I am a plant lover, animal lover, nature lover and enjoy breathing in the sun and the breeze. I also love all things natural - herbal medicines, good clean food, simple living, meditation. And above all, I love magical thinking!! I am an indie author and publisher. After a varied life as an artist, painter, designer, I have turned to writing fiction in 2019. My first two books (part of a series) can be found here: amazon.com/author/tarasmith-artetrim I am now wrapping up my new fantasy fiction novel The Old Man & The Little Leaf. It is due in Sept 2019. I am offering the first chapter free here: https://www.scribd.com/document/422382166/The-Old-Man-the-Little-Leaf-chapter1 If you like it, subscribe for the book release here on Scribd or at https://books.foodsniffr.com/get-free-books-updates/

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and events are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or places is coincidental.

Copyright @2019 Tara Smith

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First Ebook Edition: May 2019

Published by FoodSniffr Publishers

Books By Tara Smith

Nature’s Warriors Book Series

Book 1: Strange Visitor at Growley Farms

Book 2: Wild Journey & Emerald Island

I dedicate this book to the generous plant ‘people’ that have nourished life on this beautiful planet. I gratefully receive and relish their incredible intelligence and wisdom in every cell of my being.

I hope we humans have the courage and will to move away from our destruction of Mother Earth, and instead protect and cherish her. Those with means are racing towards inhabiting other planets; do we have what it takes to leave this planet better than we found it?

Wild Journey & Emerald Island

By Tara Smith

Book 2 of The Series

Nature’s Warriors

The Story So Far

In Nature’s Warriors Book 1 - Strange Visitor At Growley Farm, Artetrim the Light-Being from the faraway galaxy of Vhaubh arrives on planet Earth. He whooshes in from the skies onto a peaceful pasture in the town of Maipohe. Here he meets several animals grazing in the open; they have a great time talking, and the animals and plants enjoy meeting this strange new friend.

However soon a piercing whistle is heard across the pasture, and the animals freeze in fear. Their master, the farmer can be seen galloping towards them; it is now time for the animals to return to their shed and barns, and they do not look forward to it at all.

Artetrim senses their discomfort and suggests that they can stay here in the open for as long as they wish, after all they are free living beings.

Oh no, the animals inform him in unison; they are not free, their days and lives are at the mercy of humans.

Artetrim finds this idea appalling; after all where he comes from, no being is in bondage to any other being. Artetrim tries to convince the animals to live free of the dictates of their human master, but the animals inform him that they do not know how they can do that.

In any case, they inform Artetrim, they are better off than the chickens over at Growley Farm; those chickens lead a miserable life, they tell Artetrim.

With that, they reluctantly return to their sheds.

Artetrim is curious about Growley Farm, and decides to visit