by Alex Paul
Magra
Alda of the Academy
Mar
Ord’s father
Mar
Maren
Ord’s mother
Maren
Marm
Giant marmot
Marm
Paenemarmota sawrockensis
Midmeal
Lunch
Mideat
Milt
Mile
Mistrise
Dew rising in morning
Moonth
28 day moon cycle
Moonth
Mork’s Fire
Fire Bomb
Tar Hin
Mus
Muskrat
Mat
Ondatra
Musc Jelly
Muscadine Jelly, a sweet treat made of Musc berries
Vitis rotundifolia
Nander
Neanderthal
Naplo
Port on the Circle Sea
Narval
Gart’s best friend
Nightmeal
Dinner
Nightmist
Dew heavy as fog
Tol Mist
Nortak
Arken’s father
Nubia
Country south of Amarrat
Oathed
To swear an oath
Ord
Arken’s Nander friend
Orock
Wooly Rhinoceros
Ork
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Palm
Florida royal palm
Roystonea regia
Pequed
Captain in Yolanta’s fleet
Picar
Flat headed pig
Pic
Platygonus compressus
Poont
One pound weight
Poz
Jen’s friend
Pult
Chickasaw plum
Pult
Prunus angustifolia
Reaper
Yolanta’s warship
Rin
Six hours before sunrise at the start of rinfall
Rinfall
Rainfall
Tol Rin
River Zash
River by Water Cave
Rof
Saldet on Sea Nymph
Salcon
Cadet Officer
Saldet
Midshipman
Saldet Tyo
Saldet on Sea Nymph
Salm
Salmon
Sliv
Salmo salar
Scatar
American Scimitar Cat
Scatar
Homotherium serum
SeaJourney
First Academy sailing trip
Sea Nymph
Jat. Arken’s SeaJourney ship
Secondwife
Second highest ranking wife
Senalese
African tribe
Sharb
Red Mangrove
Sharba
Rhizophora mangle
Sharmane
Tolarian princess and Asher’s sister
Sharrks
Shark
Sark
Sheathknife
Concealed knife
Shol
Tookan god of death
Sloh
Giant Sloth
Vot
Megalonyx
Smoker
Giant Shark
Smoker
Carcharadon megaladon
Stak
Wood stork
Stark
Mycteria americana
Stillwalking
Art of quiet jungle walking
Stroebel
Soothsayer in Lanth
Swordtooth
Giant sabre-toothed cat
Scarmer
Smilodon fatalis
Talbu
2nd Lancon on the Sea Nymph
Talya
Queen’s Tracker on Sea Nymph
Tildok
Sea Dragon God
Tillerman
Ship’s helmsman
Tok
Rock test stone
Tol
Tolarian and Nander god
Tol
Tolaria
Asher’s home country
Ton
Mastodon
Ton
Mammut americanum
Tonlot
Nander’s god
Tookan
Yolanta’s Country
Toola
Spear Thrower
Tootle
Beautiful Armadillo
Mund
Dasypus bellus
Tor
Cabin boy on Golden Willow
Tozzal
Cadet in Arken’s study group
Tot
Loincloth
Pundle
Toth
Mammoth
Toth
Mammuthus columbi
Treeway
Interconnecting branches of giant oak forest
Trak
Tyo
Saldet on Sea Nymph
Water Cave
Nander Cave
Water Cave
Ween
Ord’s older sister
Ween
Whul
Whale
Whul
Wottle
Queen’s Tracker on Sea Nymph
Yal
Panther
Yal
Puma concolor coryi
Yannet
Saldet on Sea Nymph
Yar
Year
Yar
Yark
Tookan pirate
Yarn
One thousand yars
Yarn
Yellowgrass
Prarie grass
Yolanta
Tookan leader
Yon
Sailor on Sea Nymph
Zafron
Early Lantish explorer
Zarsus
Zebra
Starp
Equus occidentalis
Zash
River by Water Cave
Zosh
Zeem
3rd Lancon Sea Nymph
Zela
Arken’s mother
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Thank you so much for reading! I sincerely appreciate your interest in the world of Arken Freeth.
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Alex Paul lives in Portland, Oregon in the winter and on the Oregon coast in the summer with his wife Laura Ross-Paul. Their summer home is a small log cabin with a yurt for Laura’s art studio.
Trained as an Industrial Engineer at Oregon State University, he pursued a variety of careers
before settling into real estate development.
Alex has a great love of the outdoors, which has translated into a rich base of experience to draw on in writing the Arken Freeth novels. He began hunting when he was 20 in 1968. He hunts for deer and elk in Oregon and New Mexico. Hunting trips in years past have included elk hunts in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Washington as well as antelope hunts in Wyoming.
Alex’s fishing career began when his family moved into a house on the North Santiam River when he was twelve years old. He found a fishing pole left in the garage and decided to learn how to fish, primarily by checking out books about fishing for trout from the school library. While his father was not interested in fishing, his mother faithfully accompanied him on trips to a special fishing hole on the river behind an abandoned wooden dam until she was confident he would not fall in and drown. Then he fished the river accompanied only by his two dogs. That early interest in trout fishing transformed into a passion for salmon fishing, and now Alex keeps a deep sea fishing boat, in Astoria, Oregon. Friends and children join him in the summer crossing the Columbia River Bar to fish the Pacific Ocean.
When he is not hunting or fishing, Alex surfs the Oregon Coast, skis the Oregon Cascades, and hikes trails almost daily. He still has two dogs who are his loyal companions on most of his outdoor adventures. Additional activities such as archery, fencing, Tae Kwon Do, and horseback riding have also informed his writing.
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Arken Freeth and the
Adventure of the Neanderthals series
SEAJOURNEY, BOOK ONE
Arken Freeth has always wanted to prove himself worthy of his king's appointment by becoming an officer in the Lantish Sea Service. Now the only thing standing in his way is his apprenticeship SeaJourney. But a peaceful training mission soon turns into a deadly struggle for survival as Arken's fleet must come to the aid of a princess fleeing capture by Tookan pirates.
SHIPWRECKED, BOOK TWO
Arken Freeth’s Lantish Royal Military Academy training ship is attacked by pirates and runs ashore. He and six classmates are the only survivors of the shipwreck and they struggle to live in a jungle filled with saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, mammoths, and mastodons. Arken has salvaged a necklace from the shipwreck—a necklace that bestows the gift of prophecy. If Arken can escape the Tookan pirates intent on stealing the necklace for themselves and deliver it safely to the king of Lanth, he will turn the tide of war.
THE TOTH HUNTER, BOOK THREE
Arken and some of his friends are rescued by the Nanders, only to find that many of the Nanders want to put them to death for fear they will escape and send slavers back to the Water Cave.
Join Arken as he comes to grips with his heritage and struggles to keep himself and his friends alive while learning to live and hunt in the wild like a Nander.
THE TOOKAN ATTACK, BOOK FOUR
The bloodthirsty Tookans return for the necklace, but a surprise awaits them when they step on shore, for Arken and his friends have armed and trained the Nanders. Though outnumbered, the Nanders are powerful warriors in their own forest. The outcome for the Tookans is anything but certain as Arken fights alongside the Nanders to defend their home.
