Warren Aston is a writer currently based in Brisbane, Australia. He travels extensively pursuing research interests and trying to keep up with his six children and, so far, sixteen grandchildren. His work has been featured in the Ensign, New Era, BYU Studies Quarterly and in CES teachers manuals. Many of his articles have been published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU . His most recent book is Lehi & Sariah in Arabia: The Old World Setting of the Book of Mormon (due for release this year). Each year he also leads a tour that retraces Lehi’s journey from Jerusalem to Bountiful. He can be reached at
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