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Zusatztext "Pure entertainment at its sublime! wholly exhilarating! best... Auel! a superb raconteur! has crafted a consistently engaging adventure story with a solid historical underpinning." -- Los Angeles Times "Thrilling... This magical book is rich in details of all kinds... but it it the depth of the characters' emotional lives... that gives the novel such a stranglehold." -- Cosmopolitan “Gripping.” -- Boston Sunday Herald Informationen zum Autor Jean M. Auel Klappentext Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children® series has become a literary phenomenon! beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before! Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. 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. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent! the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe! casting the pair among strangers. 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. 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. The woman caught a glimpse of movement through the dusty haze ahead and wondered if it was the wolf she had seen loping in front of them earlier. She glanced at her companion with a worried frown, then looked for the wolf again, straining to see through the blowing dust. "Jondalar Look!" she said, pointing ahead. Toward her left, the vague outlines of several conical tents could just be seen through the dry, gritty wind. The wolf was stalking some two-legged creatures that had begun to materialize out of the dusty air, carrying spears limed directly at them. "I think we've reached the river, but I don't think we're the only ones who wanted to camp there, Ayla," the man said, pulling on the lead rein to halt his horse. The woman signaled her horse to a stop by tightening a thigh muscle, exerting a subtle pressure that was so reflexive she didn't even think of it as controlling the animal. Ayla heard a menacing growl from deep in the wolf's throat and saw that his posture had shifted from a defensive stance to an aggressive one. He was ready to attack! She whistled, a sharp, distinctive sound that resembled a bird call, though not from a bird anyone had ever heard. The wolf gave up his stealthy pursuit and bounded toward the woman astride the horse. "Wolf, stay close!" she said, signaling with her hand at the same time. The wolf trotted beside the dun yellow mare as the woman and man on horseback slowly approached the people standing between them and the tents. A gusty, fitful wind, holding the fine loess soil in suspension, swirled around them, obscuring their view of the spear holders. Ayla lifted her leg over and slid down from the horse's back. She knelt beside the wolf, put one arm over his back and the other across his chest, to calm him and hold him back if necessary. She could feel the snarl rumbling in his throat and the eager tautness of muscles ready to spring. She looked up at Jondalar. A light film of powdery dirt coated the shoulders and long flaxen hair of the tall man and turned the coat of his dark brown mount to the more common dun color of the sturdy breed. She and Whinney looked the same. Though it was still early in ...
