Earth's children
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Series
Earth's children volume 1
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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
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Series
Earth's children volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Ayla, cast out of the Clan, has been forced to follow the advice given her in the first book by her dying foster-mother Iza. She goes in search of "the Others"—that is, people like herself: European Cro-Magnon Homo sapiens, or early-modern humans, returned west and north to Europe after an incubation period of tens of millennia in the near and far east.
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Earth's children volume 3
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
26 CDs (32 hrs., 2 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare's colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Ayla is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, healing skills, and fire-making technique. Here she meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse, inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy. Now she must choose between the...
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Earth's children volume 4
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Orphaned Ayla, and wandering Jondalar, set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, looking for a place they can call home. In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and dangerous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well.
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Earth's children volume 5
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"The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar?s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes?formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone?are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the...
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Earth's children volume 6
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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.