DART BOOKS at AtlasBooks^®:
Where Deaf People Sing
Murder in the Highest Places
A Wind Under Heaven
Meadowbrook Under Thunder and Wind
Oh! Could Be
"I"
 

In the Spotlight:
Author Alfred John Dalrymple
of Dart Books

Since publishing his first title in the early 1990s, Author Alfred John Dalrymple has gone to write and publish a total of six books found here at Atlasbooks.  I contacted Alfred at his home in a remote village on the Aleutian Island chain off the Alaskan coast where he is currently writing, shoveling loads of snow, and planning another trip to Asia.

Writing both plays and novels, Alfred has chosen exotic Nepal as his focus in several of his books.

Perhaps Nepal is the perfect location for a novel of adventure and intrigue, if based solely on its history of oppression and revolution alone, but according to Alfred, who has traveled extensively to this troubled country, "The tenor of Nepal is one common to man, as to institutions...and that is "I am better than you!" In Nepal, those "lower than" are the masses...oppressed by caste and the corrupt government it fosters."

Nepal is one of a handful of countries where people have been segregated by a caste system, and where the current government has yet to permit lower caste Nepalis, often nearly moneyless, from owning property.  Alfred has traveled in and out of Nepal some nine times in the last fifteen years, and his compassion for the plight of the Nepalese people is clear.

Originally from New hampshire, Alfred was educated at the University of New hampshire and Columbia University. He traveled throughout Europe while in the Army and eventually settled in Alaska where in addition to writing, he taught grades 5-12 for three years, then fished salmon, halibut, and cod, and was Parks Manager. Also, he works as a rough carpenter, and shovels snow.

His character's adventures take place on the very trails he has traveled...seven times from Jiri to Mt. Everest.

Dalrymple's latest book is entitled "I".  In this book he says that "Freewill defines man if awareness is a central determinant of physical laws."    He asks: "Why do we have "I"?  If we are made of the stuff of the stars, what is in the stars, and throught existence which allows "I"?

To read more about the books by Alfred Dalrymple, visit
DART BOOKS at AtlasBooks:

Where Deaf People Sing
Murder in the Highest Places
A Wind Under Heaven
Meadowbrook Under Thunder and Wind
Oh! Could Be!
"I"