Knight of Dark Wood

River Dudek was born with a giftto hear the thoughts of trees.After befriending a giant oak tree named Old Man, he learnsthat civilization is on the fringes of environmental and psychologicalself-destruction. The messages he receives from Old Man takes himon a life-long journey of challenging and awakening adventures oftruth and discovery. After a series of fortuitous meetings with someenigmatic characters, including a ventriloquist psychiatrist, anex-panther kindergarten teacher, a pre-teen voodoo practitioner,and a flower-loving marine officer, he sets out on a mission tofind Dark Wood, a mysterious tree that harbors the long lostsecrets of our ancestors recorded in a vast biological networkthe trees call The Ring. As he begins to solve the cluesleading up to the location of Dark Wood, he struggleswith his sanity and uncovers the identity of the last treewhisperersomething that will change his life forever,and quite possibly the fate of the entire world.