

Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago. Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers.The Land of Painted Caves, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today. Magnificent, and a privilege to be able to read it. A compelling historical drama with every modern trait of the human being, but set in the days when the world was young. All life is here in all its glory, the loves, the jealousy, the rivalry, the medicines. Moving and majestic, this story sweeps all before it and encompasses everything we know about our ancestors as they trek through central Europe and set up home in the caves there. It's as though Auel has opened up a time portal, travelled with and lived with actual human beings as they begin their journey towards the people we. If you ever wondered what it was like for the first reasoning humans, this is the perfect way to learn. Jean Auel's amazing, ground-breaking series reaches a stunning conclusion.


A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express Show Less Product Details Auel 'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times 'A major bestseller. Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual. Read more the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering. Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers. Ayla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are home. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. The triumphant finale of the hugely successful Earth's Childrens(R) series Num Pages: 800 pages. Description for The Land of Painted Caves Paperback.
