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In this sequel to Anompolichi: The Wordmaster, the adventure continues with Iskifa Ahalopa, Wordmaster of Chunuli, his resilient apprentice Taloa, and Robert Williams, a tough Scotsman recently shipwrecked onto the shores of the New World. The Lost River: Anompolichi II finds our protagonists and the people of Chunuli uprooted as they face two perils: the threat of a fearsome plague and an imminent war initiated by enemy forces. Can Iskifa and his companions outrun disease while preparing for the battle to come? Or will this be the end of their journey?
About the author
Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is an award-winning author of three Chickasaw Press titles: Chickasaw Renaissance and Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, and co-author of Dynamic Chickasaw Women. Anompolichi: The Wordmaster is Morgan's first novel for White Dog Press. Dynamic Chickasaw Women won the Independent Publishers Book Awards' Gold Medal for Mid-West Regional non-fiction in 2012, and Riding Out the Storm won the Gold Medal in that category in 2014. Poetry by Morgan appears in The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. He also co-authored Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a conversation between leading experts in Native American literature. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma.
