From Our Editors
Returning to humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world--always driven to reach a place that they can finally call home
From the Publisher
Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children® series has become a
literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a
brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that
came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of
humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman
called Ayla.
With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous
and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of The
Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans
a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the
windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among
strangers.
Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many
innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf;
others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand;
and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own
people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled
by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the
spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can
both call home.
From the Jacket
"Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating, best...
Auel, a superb raconteur, has crafted a consistently engaging
adventure story with a solid historical underpinning."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Thrilling... This magical book is rich in details of all kinds...
but it it the depth of the characters' emotional lives... that
gives the novel such a stranglehold."
--Cosmopolitan
"Gripping."
--Boston Sunday Herald
About the Author
Jean M. Auel is an international phenomenon. Her
Earth''s Children® series has sold more than 45 million copies
worldwide and includes The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of
Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of
Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves. Her extensive
research has earned her the respect of archaeologists and
anthropologists around the world. She has honorary degrees from
four universities and was honored by the French government''s
Ministry of Culture with the medal of an "Officer in the Order of
Arts and Letters". She lives with her husband, Ray, in Oregon.
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Published: October 1, 1991
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0553289411
ISBN - 13: 9780553289411
