PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN

About the Book

PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is the fi rst book in the PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON adventure series. PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is about a dreamer of cosmic adventure who turned his dreams into reality. He was born into an unlikely time for space fl ight. When Thomas Jefferson was President the frontier was still east of Buffalo. The only way to reach this distant land was afoot or by horse. But there were other worlds whose time lines of development were not like our own. On some of these worlds the present state of Earth was in their dim past. About the time of the Mayfl ower, three travelers, exiles from the planet Oman, a world on the opposite spiral arm of Caleeron, their name for the Milky Way, crash land their craft atop a butte in what later became Monument Valley. They were unable to leave Earth and dispersed among humanity to live out their lives. The year is now 1805, and Pitus Peston, an eighteen year old farmer's son endowed with a linguistic genius, discovers an old wampum belt bearing a strange image. It stirs his soul and he believes that the image on the belt is otherworldly and he determines to uncover its secret. Through an accumulation of clues he works his way toward solving the secret of the gods of Oman.

About the Author

Everett Hunt, the creator of Pitus Peston and his adventures, is 60 and lives in Castile, New York with Sally, his wife of thirty-six years. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he grew up in nearby Fort Ann, and attended Fort Ann Central School where he graduated in 1971. He entered Albany College of Pharmacy in the fall of that year, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy. He met Sally at pharmacy school and they married in 1976 after graduation. They have four children. Hunt's writing career began in 1990 when the 18th century space traveler and the world's first astronaut, Pitus Peston, came to life in PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN. Since then, he wrote three more adventures: PITUS PESTON AND THE EYES OF HARNUK, PITUS PESTON AND THE LOOSE END, and now, PITUS PESTON AND THE VENDETTA. A fifth adventure is in the works.