Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children(R) 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.