The Plains of Passage
- 976 pages
- 35 hours of reading
Orphaned Ayla and wandering Jondalar search for a place to call home.
Jean M. Auel Book order
February 18, 1936
This author is best known for her historical novels set in prehistoric Europe. Her works explore the intricate interactions between different human species in ancient times. Through compelling storytelling, she immerses readers in the world of our ancestors, offering insights into their lives and culture. Her ability to bring the past to life with detailed research and imaginative narrative makes her work captivating for readers.
- 1990
- 1985
The third novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi, the Mammoth Hunters, who are Others like her. As she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, soon Ayla begins to feel at home, finally leaving her painful memories of the Clan behind and finding female friends. Yet Ayla is also drawn to Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master-carver of ivory. Ayla must choose: remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or follow Jondalar into the unknown . . . Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual. Praise for Jean M. Auel 'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times 'A major bestseller . . . A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express
