
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. 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. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Crown Publishing Group, 24.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-9-3 The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earths Children series is as warm. 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. BUY THIS BOOK The Plains of Passage Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. 1, 1990 By this time, followers of the adventures of AylaAnnie Oakley-cum-Edison-cum-Joyce Brothers of the Ice Agehave presumably overcome amusement at the nutty anachronisms of the dialogue and Cro-Magnon pop-psych ('You have a right to be angry. 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. Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.
