Book One of the Jonathan’s Amazing Adventures trilogy: A young boy with dreams of adventure and his dog on an Ohio farm in 1960, become lost in a new land and begin a quest to return home…
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Mark
‘Jonathan’s Amazing Adventures: Book One – Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel)’ is the first episode in a trilogy of adventures I’ve written about young Jonathan and his dog Sammy, who live on a farm in rural Ohio and go on adventures together – not adventures in the normal sense, but to another world filled with castles, knights, an epic quest and a great battle pitting light against darkness…
“This was but a small corner of the Spencer Farm, but Jonathan didn’t know that at the time. In fact, he wasn’t sure of much anything at all. For you see, poor Jonathan, being only eight years old – eight and a half if you were to ask him yourself – was lost. Oh, he wasn’t lost in the usual sense, as if he had wandered too far afield chasing rabbits, as he often had a habit of doing. His mother had gone looking for him many times before after he had gone off adventuring in the fields, but this time was different and he knew it.”
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Mark
Here’s an excerpt from the Preface of my book Jonathan’s Amazing Adventures: Book One – Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel)
“Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel) evolved in ways I never considered when the story first unfolded. It’s a story about young boys and their dreams of adventure, which also explores issues and themes that are timeless and cross-cultural. It captures my imagination for adventure, as well as the thoughts of young children everywhere – dreaming of all that lies beyond their present circumstances and known boundaries.
Few children are content to stay within the borders that define their worlds. It is this same thirst for adventure that fuels our imagination and drives us to seek our fortunes, explore the unexplored and challenges us to reach for the stars. May the spirit of adventure that lives in our hearts never die and may we always explore beyond the boundaries of our worlds – wherever it takes us!”
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Mark
I’ve just published my latest book – my 15th: Jonathan’s Amazing Adventures: Book One – Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel) This is my first novel and Part One of a trilogy soon to be published. I’ve been working on this adventure series on and off since starting Jonathan’s Dream in early 1984, and the paperback version is 349 pages long and the Kindle version is free to read on Kindle Unlimited.
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“This was but a small corner of the Spencer Farm, but Jonathan didn’t know that at the time. In fact, he really wasn’t sure of much of anything at all. For you see, poor Jonathan, being only eight years old – eight and a half if you were to ask him yourself – was lost. Oh, he wasn’t lost in the usual sense, as if he had wandered too far afield chasing rabbits, as he often had a habit of doing. His mother had gone looking for him many times before after he had gone off adventuring in the fields, but this time was different and he knew it. It was only yesterday he had set out on his latest adventure, not knowing that it would be different from all the rest…”
About the Author:
“I first began writing Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel) in early 1984 and have been working on this story, and Jonathan and Sammy’s two follow-on adventures ever since stumbling on the tale by accident when the first two paragraphs revealed themselves to me in my free-form writing exercise through serendipity. These sentences beckoned me into a world I’d never visited before and there was little I could do but decide to explore it myself. In essence, not only had Jonathan found himself in an adventure that was greater than he had ever imagined, but I was pulled into a literary adventure I’d never expected to take as well! Cheers! Mark”
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Mark
Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel)
(Copyright 1984, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved)
Map of the Land of Myllanthar
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(Note – My new map (top) reflects the curving nature of the mountain ranges that my first attempt (bottom) failed to represent.)
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Map of the Land of Myllanthar
Index
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1. Island of Ayall
2. Sea of Kuhlarr
3. City of Sojar
4. Land of Sojar
5. River Sojar
6. Marshlands of Sojar
7. Kingdom of Nierron
8. Wastelands of Fell Ignar or Kriegareth
9. Sylthar Wood
10. Kingdom of Errayllor
11. City of Errayll
12. Plains of Errayllor
13. River Rhayden or Stony Creek
14. Ullryth Pond fed by Ullryth Creek in the Ullryth Hills and location of the former Kingdom of Ullryth
15. River Illandrith
16. Dalharr or Land of Shadows
17. River Thywin
18. Nefyanll or Boundary Mountains of Nefyanll, Forlorn Crescent Mountain Range, Lost Range
19. Nyllaythel or Nether Realm, Great Forest of the Nether Realm, Lost Realm
20. Marshlands of the River Glynnthal
21. River Glynnthal
22. Foothills of the Tregarron Mountains
23. High Mountain Pass of Dorrimar, Tregarron Mountain Range or Tregarron Mountains, Tregarron Range, Mount Rhayander, Tywyn or Hidden Place, Mirror Lake, Glandwr
24. Trevareth or Desolation Pass
25. Barren Hills
26. Tregarron Mountain Range or Tregarron Mountains, Tregarron Range
27. Kingdom of Dorrimar
28. Dorrimar Mountains or Dorrimar Range
29. River Allonyl
30. Kingdom of Ellberron
31. Nomadic Slejuv People in the Tregarron Mountains
32. City of Allonyl
33. Bay of Ellberron
34. City of Ellonyl
35. Ellberron Mountains of Ellberron Range
36. Pengarth Mountains or Pengarth Range
37. City of Cullayl
38. City of Dahyll
39. Kingdom of Kardune
40. City of Kardune
41. City of Ullsk
42. City of Kuhlar
43. Kingdom of Pengarth
44. Inland Sea of Pengarth
45. River Pengarth
46. City of Penmarth (Note: The location needs to be moved south of the Tregarron Mountains halfway towards the River Pengarth and a little inland on a partial bay. The River Myuthall runs from just southeast of Castle Penmaryll (in the western portion of the city), paralleling the coastline to where the Tregarron Mountains meet the Sea of Tollvar. The location number 46 on the map now, is where the ancient, abandoned Fortress of Skulvarr Fell is actually located.
47. Island Fortress of Tyull
48. City of Rhyll
49. City of Talgarth and the Inland Sea of Talgar
50. Kingdom of Talgar
51. River Khyll
52. City of Khyll
53. Talgar Mountains or Talgar Range
54. Sea of Pulthyar
55. Sea of Tollvar
Jonathan’s Dream (An Adventure Novel)
(Copyright 1984, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved)
Map of the Nether Realm of Myllanthar
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The Nether Land of Myllanthar
Index
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1. Sea of Kuhlarr or Great Northern Sea (far north)
2. Kingdom of Errayllor
3. Plains of Errayllor
4. Ullryth Hills
5. Ullryth Pond fed by Ullryth Creek
6. River Rhayden or Stony Creek
7. River Illandrith
8. Dalharr or Land of Shadows
9. River Thywin
10. Nefyanll or Boundary Mountains of Nefyanll, Forlorn Crescent Mountain Range, Lost Range
11. Nyllaythel or Nether Realm, Great Forest of the Nether Realm, Lost Realm
12. Marshlands of the River Glynnthal
13. The Cliffs of the River Illandrith that Majeka and Jonathan jumped off
14. Foothills of the Tregarron Mountains
15. Glandwr
16. Mirror Lake
17. Tywyn or Hidden Place
18. Mount Rhayander
19. Tregarron Mountain Range or Tregarron Mountains, Tregarron Range
20. Kingdom of Dorrimar
21. High Mountain Pass of Dorrimar
22. Sea of Pulthyar or Great Southern Sea (far south)
23. Direction the Journey will follow
24. Barren Hills
25. Kingdom of Nierron
Jonathan's Amazing Adventures 