From the back cover-

Fungle is a Gnole: an intelligent mole-like creature living deep in the wilds of the Smoky Mountains, far from man's ever-growing empire. But Fungle has noticed the tell-tale signs of human approach and knows his world is threatened as never before. The time has come for him to leave his beloved forest for the concrete jungle of Manhattan - on a bold quest to save the planet and human kind from its own destuction.

AVL.