Synopses & Reviews
Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined.
In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told adventure story, Torak and Wolf are joined by an incredible cast of characters as they battle to save their world, in this first book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.
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"...[T]his first of a projected six episodes makes a muddled but strong start....By the end, readers will have a real feeling for what life in the wild must have been like, and will be looking forward to Torak's further exploits." Kirkus Reviews
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"The story
glides on lines of smooth prose" Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books
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"Pavers depth of research
makes this impressive British import
intriguing and believable." School Library Journal
Synopsis
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Torak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfull an oath the boy made to his dying father to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
About the Author
Michelle Paver was born in central Africa but went to England as a child. After earning a degree in biochemistry from Oxford University, she became a partner in a London law firm but eventually gave that up to write full-time.
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series came from Michelle's lifelong passion for animals, anthropology, and the distant past—as well as an encounter with a large bear in a remote valley in Southern California. To research the books, Michelle has traveled to Finland, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Arctic Canada, and the Carpathian Mountains. She has slept on reindeer skins, swum with wild killer whales, and gotten nose-to-nose with polar bears—and, of course, wolves. The first five books have been made into widely acclaimed audiobooks, read by Ian McKellen.