Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. 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. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. 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. Jean Auel's imaginative reconstruction of pre-historic life, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual, has become a set text in schools and colleges around the world. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. 9781444704372 The Plains of Passage 42.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent.

Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent.

The plains of passage by jean m auel