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    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

Plains of Passage Earths Children 4

by Jean Auel

Plains of Passage Earths Children 4 Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

"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

Review:

"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.

About the Author

JEAN M. AUEL is an international phenomenon. Her books have sold 34 million copies worldwide. Her extensive research has earned her the respect of archaeologists and anthropologists around the world. She lives with her husband, Ray, in Oregon, where she is at work on the next book in the Earth’s Children® series.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780553289411
Author:
Auel, Jean M.
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Author:
Auel, Jean M.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Primitive societies
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Epic literature
Subject:
Man, prehistoric
Subject:
Ayla (fictitious character)
Subject:
Primitive societies -- Fiction.
Subject:
Ayla (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Bantam ed.
Edition Description:
Bantam Paperback
Series:
Earth's Children (Paperback)
Series Volume:
v.1
Publication Date:
October 1991
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
896
Dimensions:
688x417x156 92

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