They were compact for their species , averaging ten feet high at the withers . Their massive heads , large in proportion to their overall height and more than half the length of their trunks , rose high above their shoulders in a peaked ...
Ayla, an injured and orphaned child adopted by a primitive tribe, carries within her the seed and hope of humankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory. Reissue.
First novel in Jean M. Auel's magnificent epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.
“ This woman would make a request , ” she began hesitantly . " Yes ? " " This woman has never seen a mammoth . ... when Ayla assumed a quasi - adult status and began going on hunting trips , that the women began to think of her as more ...
In this first book of the beloved Earth’s Children (R) series, Auel takes us back to the dawn of mankind and sweeps us up into the amazing and wonderful world of Ayla, one of the most remarkable heroines ever imagined.
When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as...
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place.