Throughout the icy winter, Ayla is torn between her two men. Here, too, is Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory tusks to whom Ayla is irresistibly drawn-setting Jondalar on fire with jealousy. Here Ayla finds her first women friends, and painful memories of the Clan she left behind. Though Ayla must learn their strange customs and language, it is because of her uncanny hunting and healing skills that she is adopted into the Mammoth Hearth. Now, with her devoted Jondalar, Ayla boldly sets forth into the land of the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters, the Others she has been seeking. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to "The Clan Of The Cave Bear" and its sequel, "The Valley Of Horses," Jean M. Auel opens the door of time to reveal an age of wonder and terror at the dawn of humanity. About the time Auel published the first book in the Earth's Children series, Clan of the Cave Bear, Gould had written the introduction to another novel set among the Neanderthals, Dance of the Tiger by Bjorn Kurten. Inscribed to the late evolulationary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, 'Steven J. The third volume in the Earth's Children series, set in the world of pre-historic humans.
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