
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.īut 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. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. 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. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla.

In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. Auel 'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times 'A major bestseller. Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they are forced to brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home. Title: The Plains of Passage Author: Auel, Jean M. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Ayla and Jondalar have left the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embarked on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent.


Auel's internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. The fourth novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M.
