Having made the Journey this far, Jondalar knows the way back home and is anxious to get there. After spending several months with the Mamutoi, it is time to move on. While happy to be with Ayla, he is homesick for his own people and convinces Ayla to come with him. Jondalar started his Journey with his brother but ended with Ayla after a cave lion killed and injured him. However, she can always win over her detractors through her healing skills or personality. Because she was raised by 'flatheads' after her own family died in an earthquake, she frequently faces prejudice from those who don't understand. But she loves Jondalar and will go with him despite her qualms. Along the way, they meet up with several other groups of people, some good and some not.Īyla is nervous about leaving the Mamutoi, who have adopted her and given her a family. Ayla and Jondalar have decided to leave the Mamutoi and make the trip back to Jondalar's home. I always enjoy this series, and this book is my favorite. Fourth in the acclaimed Earth's Children(R) series … ( more)Ī reread of this book. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home.

Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand and some will threaten them. 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.

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