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. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues. 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. Jean Auels The Plains of Passage, the fourth volume in the Earths Children sequence, is one of the most massive yet (running to nearly 1,000 pages) and has all the sweep and vigour of the earlier books in the series.There are few writers who demonstrate the sheer range and ambition of Auel in the fantasy field. The Plains of Passage Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Auel's internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.Īyla and Jondalar have left the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embarked on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. The fourth novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M.
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