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Land of Painted Caves Earths Children
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Jean M Auel
Sanela Portland
, January 20, 2013
In the 1980s I had read the first three books of the Earth's Children Series by Jane M. Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses and The Mammoth Hunters. These books left a lasting impact on me. Then sometimes in the March of the last year, I happened to come by display of the newest book by Jane M. Auel, The Land of Painted Caves. After checking out the book, I was surprised to learn that this was the final book in the Earth's Children Series; and that there were two more books in the series of which I have not even been aware, The Plains of Passage (the fourth) and The Shelters f Stone (the fifth book in the Series). Hence, I set out to reread the first three books and to acquaint myself with the last three books of the Series. So here, I would like this commentary to be praise to entire series not just to The Land of Painted Caves. My favourite stories have always been those in which different cultures and different traditions overcome their differences and co-exist, as opposed to perpetually conflicting one another. And this book series is such. I was mesmerized by the detail of every day life of prehistoric people and extensive description in which way Neanderthal and Cro-Magnons were different. However, what really spoke to me was premise that innovation (be it social or technological), new ways of being, of understanding, new tradition, new culture is always born at the intersection of the two old traditions. And at the intersection point of this, there is always a human change agent who has knowing, understanding, empathy and compassion of and for both. In this Series that heroine is Ayla. She is born to Cro-Magnons, but raised by Neanderthals. She carries information of two opposing worlds. And as every hero, so does Ayla, goes on a hero's journey from caves of the people with whom she grew up, back to 'her' people. Yet she is forever and irrevocably changed. So her journey is that of the reconciliation of the opposites. She is an ambassador of both traditions, for she is both, but neither at the same time. She continuously has to invent and reinvent herself along the way, as well as she has to invent new ways in how to survive for she threads were no one threaded before. In such a way she also becomes symbol of light bearer for humanity. I find it curious that The Land of Painted Caves came about the time when Herzog's documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams revealed the beauty of the Chauvet Cave to the world, which features prominently in the book. I wish that Auel's publisher will come up with special edition of the series that would have detailed map and colour images of the archeological sites, and artifacts that were inspiration to this Series.
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Adams Curse A Future Without Men
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Bryan Sykes
Sanela Portland
, January 13, 2013
What a fascinating read! A page-turning non-fiction thriller that examines evolution and relationship of sex genes and proves once again that reality, indeed, is stranger then a fiction.
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